Note 31 — THE TECHNICAL CULTURE OF THE ANDAMAN ISLANDERS (continued 2)

The fashion of hair-dressing, at any rate for women, has changed within recent times, for Mr Man wrote in 1882 that “the majority of the women every week or ten days shave their heads almost entirely, leaving only two narrow parallel lines of hair, termed gor, from the crown to the nape of the neck31.” At the present time this style of hair-dressing has fallen entirely into disuse, and the women do their hair in the same way as the men.