where did hair braiding start what year and by who?

Question

PLEASE HELP !!! I have a big term paper due tommorow and a presentation about braiding hair i can not find any info on who started it where why or when im in serious need of help please tell anything you know..........please.......]:

Answer 1

Braids were big in ancient Egypt. http://www.touregypt.net/magazine/mag07012001/magf3.htm

also see figure with braids over 20,000 years old http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/willendorfwoman.html

Answer 2

Keep practising and ask for your daughters' patience. It does take a while to get the knack of it. There are some pretty good step by step books/magazines out there. Maybe let your daughter go with you, so you can pick them out. Or like the others said, you tube. Your daughter shouldnt need her hair in a french braid to play softball, as long as it's put back neatly and secure. Good luck and congrats for trying.

Answer 3

Hair braiding is probably prehistorical. It makes sense that before people cut their hair, it would get in the way, so they would find some way ot tieing it back.

People with curly coarse hair are able to twist/curl their hair without "tieing" it with hair ties. So it is probably a prehistorical response to a pragmatic need to keep one's hair out of one's way when working or eating.

Answer 4

I can not say i'm completly sure. I do not think people actually know when people began to braid hair. But i would say around the time of the early Homosapiens. which were in africa.

Answer 5

The african princess use to braid their hair because they were royalty, check the bible it also refers to braids, and they started with braiding basket material together, then it graduated to the hair.

Answer 6

white people