This is a commercial hair-braiding salon in downtown Brooklyn, by the school at which I'm currently student-teaching. When I was in junior high school, I read an article somewhere that mentioned that braid patterns on African girls and women allowed researchers to trace the matrilineal heritage of a bloodline all the way back to individual tribes in Africa. This blew my mind.
I assume that that is less the case now that women can get their hair braided in any one of several braid patterns, by paying someone rather than getting braided by their mother or another woman in the family.
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