SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

INDIAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the name of the traditional hair style that was a custom of some American Indian groups in the Eastern Woodlands?
A
French Braid
B
Head Dress
C
Dreadlocks
D
Mohawk
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The roach hairstyle is often known as a Mohawk or Mohican hairstyle, after two tribes who frequently wore it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Despite allegedly being named after the Mohawk people, an indigenous tribe that originally inhabited the Mohawk Valley in Upstate New York, history holds that the mohawk hairstyle we know today was more often worn by the Pawnee, who lived in present-day Nebraska and Northern Kansas.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Mohawk are traditionally the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Six Nations Confederacy or the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Our original homeland is the north eastern region of New York State extending into southern Canada and Vermont.

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