Line #140 Main/HammerspaceHair


1	[[quoteright:300:[[Anime/ExcelSaga https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hyperspacearsenal.jpg]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:300:Those aren't hairpins!]]
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4	->'''Amber:''' What were you ''doing'' in there?\
5	'''Famine:''' What WAS I doing in there?
6	-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}''
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8	This is an old gag. It's where someone seems to have a storage space set in their hair. Usually, that hairstyle is [[FunnyAfro an afro]] if it's a man or [[BeehiveHairdo a beehive]] if it's a woman, but not always. Why are they capable of doing this? Because they have Hammerspace Hair!
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10	A minor variation is when a character keeps things stored in his beard. Can also be invoked if a character's entire body is covered with hair.
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12	Subtrope of {{Hammerspace}}. Compare CombatHaircomb.
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14	For times when it seems like someone's hair must have been hidden in hammerspace, see CompressedHair. This is actually a real technique some people employ in street fights, so employing this tactic can make one a CombatPragmatist.
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16	!!Examples:
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20	[[folder:Advertising]]
21	* Apparently, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ak6zEzCC58&feature=kp this kid]] is a walking piggy bank.
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24	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
25	* Nabeshin from ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' would occasionally keep things in his hair like [[{{BFG}} big guns]], as pictured above.
26	-->'''Excel:''' That's some ''serious'' dandruff, man.
27	* Nabeshin's cameo in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' has him randomly fall over at one point, at which a handful of items fall out. Oh, and he himself was hiding in it before.
28	* A line from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. Kotaro had just pulled a vial out of his hair, with only Chamo asking, "He hid it in his hair?"
29	* Lambo from ''Manga/Reborn2004'' keeps a bazooka bigger than he is in his hair.
30	* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Kurama and his Rose Whip. He pulls the rose right out of his hair the first time we see it, and apparently he keeps a lot of other seeds for his plant-weapons up there as well.
31	* In the ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' movie, Yoko pulls a pistol out of her hair while fighting Adiane.
32	* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' naturally includes this among its many hair-related sight gags.
33	* ''Manga/GaRei'':
34	** Even when downsized to a puppy, the inugami Byakuei from still manages to fit a huge double-bladed sword in his tail. His real size is a lot bigger, though.
35	** [[NeverMessWithGranny Fujiko]] plays it mostly straight: she hides ''shuriken'' in her, well, wig.
36	* In episode seven of ''Anime/WandabaStyle'', Michael Hanagata is wearing a spacesuit and gets a call on his cellphone. He manages to take the call without taking off his helmet by shaking his head, dislodging his cellphone from his afro. It's later revealed that he keeps it in there all the time. Also in episode seven, his [[GoodAngelBadAngel shoulder devil]] pops out his afro as well.
37	* Dasonu Maso of ''Manga/SgtFrog'' can travel through space ''in his own afro'', then land wherever he liked (usually the Hinata house) whereupon his limbs, then the rest of him would emerge from it.
38	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Ivankov's head is so large he can hide ''people'' inside his hair.
39	* Iris from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'' hides her Axew in her bushy hair.
40	* Tails in ''Anime/SonicX'' apparently is able to tuck away Chaos Emeralds in the fluff of his tails. In one episode, he also gets a screwdriver from apparently nowhere, most likely his... Hammerspace Tail Fur? [[AssShove One can only hope.]]
41	* [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Duo Maxwell]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' subverts this trope. He wears hairpins... ostensibly to control flyaways, but he actually uses them for picking locks.
42	* In ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'', when Ms. Sakurai asks him to tone down his afro (actually a wig), Tanaka changes the subject by pulling out a red bean pancake and offering it to her.
43	* In ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', Sunny's "Satan Hair" is combination of this and StomachOfHolding, since its hair that will "eat" anything it touches and store it for later use. He can even use it to swallow ''energy blasts'' and spit them back at the offender.
44	* Garterbelt from ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' stores all sorts of things in his afro, including paper messages from Heaven and extra bullet belts for his machine guns.
45	* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has V.V. pulling a machine gun out of his hair [[spoiler: to murder his sister-in-law, Marianne]]. Somewhat subverted in that while the machine gun is [[SmallGirlBigGun bigger than V.V.]], it is smaller than his hair.
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48	[[folder:Arts]]
49	* [[OlderThanRadio 18th-century caricatures]] poke fun at the huge, elaborate wigs in fashion at the time, sometimes showing them used for smuggling.
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52	[[folder:Comic Books]]
53	* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'': Leonardo often pulls objects out of his beard, most notably a blunderbuss.
54	* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' has Fluffy/Floquinho, a Lhasa Apso-like dog. Sometimes whole groups of people get lost in it!
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57	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
58	* ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise likes to use her signature weapon as a hair pin.
59	[[/folder]]
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61	[[folder:Fan Works]]
62	* Calvin manages to store his Transmogrifier Gun in his hair in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''.
63	* In chapter 3 of ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9087217/1/Mr-Dudeman-s-Wish Mr. Dudeman's Wish,]]'' Mr. Messy pulls a map of Dillydale out of his hair.
64	* Adagio Dazzle does this in ''Fanfic/SuckerForACuteFace''.
65	* {{Invoked}} with a [[https://www.deviantart.com/theshadamyartisto10/art/Umbrella-ShadAmy-Comic-Blooper-804998581 blooper]] of a ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fancomic, ''Umbrella'', taking place after the moment where [[https://www.deviantart.com/theshadamyartisto10/art/Umbrella-ShadAmy-Comic-Pg14-804998230 Shadow grabs a Chaos Emerald out of hammerspace and teleports elsewhere.]]
66	-->'''Amy:''' Wait... He kept that emerald [[ComicallyMissingThePoint in his quills the whole time?]]
67	* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': In addition to Axew as in the anime, Iris stores her Pokéballs in her hair.
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70	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
71	* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', Pinkie Pie has the same ability as her pony counterpart (see below), pulling a clipboard and pen out of her curly and fluffy hair. In the sequel ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Rainbow Rocks]]'', she stashes cookies and her drumsticks in here. In ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames Friendship Games]]'', she even pulls out a fully-cooked cake and pie.
72	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'': The Pirate Captain hides plenty of bizarre stuff in his beard, including his precious PirateParrot... er... [[spoiler:Pirate Dodo]].
73	* In the ''Franchise/{{Trolls}}'' franchise's TV series ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn'' and ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTrollstopia'', trolls are regularly shown to keep things in their hair, with more stuff that can logically fit. At one point, Biggie vanishes an object in his hands by wrapping it in his shorter than average hair. It's even established across the franchise that trolls use their hair as a playpen for children too young to walk around on their own.
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76	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
77	* In ''Film/FoxyBrown'', the title character hides a pistol in her afro.
78	* In ''Film/{{Coffy}}'', the protagonist (like the character above, also played by Pam Grier) hides small blades in her afro. See below under RealLife.
79	* In ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', William Wallace hides a mace behind his hair and down his back.
80	* In ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', Edie [=McClurg=] (School Secretary) pulls like three pencils from her fluffy curls and goes back for another! This wasn't a special effect -- the actress and director, between takes, wondered how many pencils she could hide in her hair... apparently the answer was "more than 4".
81	* In ''Film/LeprechaunInTheHood'', Ice T pulls a knife and then a baseball bat out of his 'fro.
82	* This occurs in the film and novel ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'', in which Starling gives officers a pre-arrest warning that their HIV-positive arrest target likes to hide syringes in her hair, knowing that law-enforcement officers like to shove their suspect down by the head when putting them in the car.
83	* In ''Film/{{Casino}}'', Nicky's wife hides a bunch of stolen diamonds in her hair to sneak it through the airport.
84	* In John Waters' 1988 ''Film/{{Hairspray\|1988}}'', Velma hides a bomb in her beehive hairdo.
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87	[[folder:Literature]]
88	* Done in a creepy way in Lorna Landvik's ''Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons'': the abusive husband of one of the women forces her to wear her hair in the same outdated, complicated updo that his mother favors. She begins to hide things in her hair -- like rolled up tissues, candy, etc. -- to feel like she was subverting him.
89	* In the science fiction novel ''Steel Beach'', a member of an AnimalWrongsGroup never bathes or cuts his hair or beard. A number of animals and insects live in his hair.
90	* In the ''Literature/SmartJunior'' books by The Princeton Review, Barnaby's impressive hair is known to provide whatever the team needs at a given moment.
91	* In Meredith Ann Pierce's ''Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood'', there's [[MacGuffinSuperPerson Hannah]] and her [[FertileFeet fertile tresses]].
92	* In the Corellian Trilogy of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]], [[NonHumanSidekick Chewbacca]] keeps a few things hidden under his fur, such as a comlink (walkie-talkie/cell phone).
93	* In the stand-alone Novel ''Airman'' by Creator/EoinColfer, when an older friend and teacher is cornered by Marshal Bonvilain, the villain, Bonvilain says: "Now you probably have a dirk in your beard, or a derringer up your sleeve, or some other spy trick." (He was also a spy for the king, ''long story'')
94	* Everyone's favorite vampire executioner Literature/AnitaBlake likes to hide ''[[MacheteMayhem a goddamn machete]]'' in a spine sheath underneath her waist-length black hair, in case of OhCrap moments. [[MoreDakka Or when her many guns run out of ammo.]]
95	* Apparently, on the Literature/{{Discworld}} it's a common skill among dwarfs to be able to hide battle axes in one's beard.
96	* In Megan Whalen Turner's ''[[Literature/TheQueensThief Queen's Thief]]'' series, one of the major plot twists in the first book comes about as the result of the hero's use of this trope.
97	* In ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', it's mentioned that the Emperor's Sardaukar soldiers carry a wire hidden in their hair to use as a garrote if captured and disarmed.
98	* ''Literature/StickDog'': One of the group, Mutt, likes to store things in his fur. When he shakes, lots of things fall out of it.
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101	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
102	* In ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'', Stalin can use his moustache to [[HammerspaceHideaway hide full grown women]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e7z9X1YfGU Which he does.]] The gag is later repeated with the DodgyToupee of the President of the World.
103	* ''Series/HannahMontana'': Miley's Aunt Dolly always keeps her cell phone in her enormous blonde hairdo, because her pants are too tight.
104	* ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'': Rudi something something (he goes by many names) has an actual door (of Cuckoondo) in his afro.
105	* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Ronon Dex hides a number of throwing knives in his dreadlocks.
106	-->'''Shepard:''' How many of those do you have in there?\
107	'''Ronon:''' How many do you need?
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110	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
111	* When he debuted on [[Wrestling/WWERaw Monday Night Raw]] an image of Wrestling/{{Carlito\|Colon}} with a pair of brass knuckles in his hair began circulating around the web(along with other weapons, including a grenade). ''WWE Day Of Reckoning'' even had him [[AscendedMeme pulling an apple out of his afro]].
112	* Abe "Action" Jackson has been said to have "foreign hair", as in his Afro is big enough to hide a weapon in.
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115	[[folder:Video Games]]
116	* In ''VideoGame/SNKVsCapcom'', huge ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' wrestler Hugo has tiny Bao from ''Videogame/TheKingOfFighters'' cameo in his intro. Where does Bao happen to pop up (and hide in when the fights start)? [[http://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters/hugo-sc-intro.gif Hugo's sizable hair.]]
117	* In the Platform/NeoGeo fighting game ''[[VideoGame/FuunSeries Savage Reign]]'', gymnast Carol fights with an Olympic pink ball; if thrown as a projectile, she produces another from underneath her hair. Her hair isn't much past her shoulder, and the ball is about as large as her whole head...
118	* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', Sazh keeps a baby chocobo in his afro.
119	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
120	** According to flavor text, Zoroark parents carry their young in their hair.
121	** Munchlax stores food in its long fur. However, because [[OneTrackMindedHunger it is so hungry]], it forgets that it's even there until it rots.
122	** In the ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters'' mobile game, [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Iris]] mentions that she sometimes stores things in her hair. Her Haxorus stored berries in her hair once... and when taken out later they looked exactly the same as they did before they went in her hair.
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125	[[folder:Webcomics]]
126	* ''Webcomic/AddictiveScience'': While transformed into a [[https://addictivescience.kemono.cafe/comic/page2220/ dog-taur]] Celia manages to hide her rayguns and a lamp taller than herself in her fur.
127	* In ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'', Ozy goes out in a cold snap before his winter coat comes in. The result is that it comes in all at once, leaving him extremely fluffy. Millie takes advantage of this to hide things in him, up to and including a [[https://ozyandmillie.org/2001/01-04/index.html toy piano.]]
128	* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', Carrie uses this trope literally [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/1888402/hair-care/ once]] [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/1923190/who-to-watch-for/ or twice.]]
129	* Eddie from ''Webcomic/EmergencyExit'' can pull random things (including hammers) from his hair. This is eventually revealed to be because [[spoiler:he forced a portal ''into his skull'' to keep the villains from getting it.]] It's also apparently when he became such a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
130	* Rufus from ''Webcomic/{{Terinu}}'', being a [[FoxFolk foxlike alien]], has on at least one occasion hidden a locator unit for his ship in his ''tail''.
131	* ''Webcomic/ALoonaticsTale'': The Zinc family hair eats things. But since it's normal hair by all other standards, it doesn't actually do anything with this stuff once it's got it. So if it gets a hold of something really important and you need to pull it out, you'll probably bring some debris, and perhaps the odd bird carcass, along with it.
132	* ''Webcomic/APTComic'': Ammika does this occasionally.
133	-->'''Inferno:''' Where are you keeping that map, anyway?
134	* Amber from ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}'' has picking stuff out of her insanely long hair as her morning routine. Such things include quarters, pizza boxes, potted plants, a-bombs, her cat and her best friend.
135	-->'''Amber:''' What were you ''doing'' in there?\
136	'''Famine:''' What WAS I doing in there?
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139	[[folder:Web Original]]
140	* Wrestling parody site Scoopthis.com had a RunningGag about Wrestling/{{WCW}} wrestler Wrestling/{{Meng}}'s afro serving this purpose. At one point, [[http://www.scoopthis.com/pages/article.cgi?file=articles/wrestling/075_afromeng.htm his fro ate Rey Mysterio.]]
141	* "There is no chin under [[MemeticBadass Chuck Norris's]] beard, only another fist."
142	* Inverted: [[http://pahcfiles.com/pahc/blackeyes/windmill-beard.jpg "There is a windmill in my beard."]]
143	%%* [[http://johnsu.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=120#/d10r4ek This]] John Su comic.
144	* [[http://robosylveon.tumblr.com/post/113905412417/just-cause-you-sing-it-doesnt-make-it-right This]] [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Flareon]] manages to contain an Eevee in its tail. An Eevee is only about half the height and 1/4 the weight of a Flareon, but still, that's quite a hiding spot.
145	* [[Blog/AskFlufflePuff Fluffle Puff]] has all sorts of weird stuff contained in her seeming-endless fluff; she can house the Mane 6, the Diarchs, Discord, Chryssi and Fausticorn, and Spike once took days to navigate her fur to scratch her back.
146	* In the ''WebVideo/RoosterTeethShorts'', ''Beard Meeting'', Burnie and Blaine's search for a room to have a meeting in Adam's beard, much to his displeasure.
147	* In ''WebVideo/RhettAndLink'''s Hair Song, Link mentions this as a benefit of hair that goes down.
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150	[[folder:Western Animation]]
151	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
152	** Marge Simpson. She has carried money in it at various times and it's strong enough to hold a beach umbrella. And a ten-pin bowling ball (though not at the same time!).
153	** Sideshow Bob likewise hid evidence of his electoral fraud in his giant 'fro.
154	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperGlobetrotters'' (the 2nd Harlem Globetrotters cartoon) has Gizmo Man, one of the [[FiveManBand team members]]; sporting a truly epic FunnyAfro. He also just took a moment of [[RummageFail rooting around]] and whatever he wanted could be found in that 'fro.
155	-->'''Fluid Man:''' Man, that Lou's better than traveler's cheques!
156	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter grows a beard in which he keeps several birds.
157	* Speaking of which, here's a limerick by Edward Lear, 1846, adapted as [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Bforbeard.jpg a cartoon short]] for ''Series/SesameStreet'':
158	-->''There was an old man with a beard\
159	Who said, "It is just as I feared!\
160	"Two owls and a wren,\
161	"Four larks and a hen\
162	"Have all built their nests in my beard!"
163	* Uncle Ruckus from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' suspect Huey is hiding something in his afro, when he's doing a commentary on the season one DVD.
164	* In the French cartoon franchise ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois'', most incarnations of the Maestro have a {{Hammerspace}} ''beard'' that reaches to his ankles, stores everything in the world, and possibly serves as a [[GodivaHair Godiva Beard]].
165	* Shag from ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers''. He once hid another team member in his fur.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainCaveman'': The title character, being completely covered in hair, would often pull out things from his chest. Including dinosaurs.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Val Hallen of the Justice Friends, in a one-off gag involving an X-ray.
168	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' has [[MadScientist Heloise]] keeping one of her gadgets in her ponytail.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Pinkie Pie can use her curly and fluffy mane to produce/hide all manner of objects, including a flashlight and a scrapbook. Most egregious is when she's able to produce a full cake and have it still be edible or a ''full-sized, fully functional confetti cannon'' out of there. Has become MemeticMutation in the fanbase that she has a PocketDimension in there somewhere.
170	* Steven's pet lion in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has an entire pocket dimension in his mane, and it is often used to store items like his sword for withdrawal at a moment's notice. [[spoiler:When Steven brings Lars BackFromTheDead, Lars' hair leads to the same dimension, connecting the two.]]
171	* [[BigFun Shirley]] in ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' is sometimes shown to have all kinds of things hidden in her wool- a hammer and nails, large stacks of money, and even a car tire.
172	* Grandpa Smurf in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' stores a lot of stuff in his beard.
173	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', Mr. Cat dresses up as [[Film/PulpFiction Jules Winnfield]] for most of the episode and uses a wig which he uses to store stuff.
174	* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', particularly in the Total Drama Revenge of the Island episode "Truth or Laser Shark," Anne Maria has stated that she kept her hair spray (among other things) in her "poof." It's a mystery how she can carry a can of hairspray, let along a whole bunch of cans, in a hairdo that's as hard as a ship's hull.
175	* Li'l Gideon in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' hides pieces of Journal #2 inside his over-sized pompadour.
176	* In ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn'', trolls are shown regularly storing things in their hair, even things that shouldn't logically fit. It's established for the franchise that before a certain age, trolls even use their hair as playpens and cribs for their babies.
177	* An experimental gadget on ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' was the Quick Stash Mustache, a fake bushy mustache that could be used to covertly store things. The downside was that it actually enlarged with every object put into it, making it too conspicuous and cumbersome to use.
178	* Eda Clawthorne in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has stored a large number of things in her hair, from photographs to lunchboxes. Her mother is the same way, despite having much shorter hair.
179	--> '''Luz:''' Someday my hair's going to be big enough to do that, too.\
180	'''King:''' You actually want that?
181	[[/folder]]
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183	[[folder:Real Life]]
184	* In 2008, Music/AmyWinehouse was filmed taking cocaine on stage, after apparently taking the vial out of her hair.
185	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYoJTAUK0UM This kid]] shakes his head to make a bunch of pens fly out.
186	* As stated in the trope description, this is actually a rather nasty fighting technique: people put sharp things in their hair not for their own use, but place them there [[ByTheHair with the expectation that other people will attempt to grab their hair in a fight]].
187	* On the 2013 Teen Tournament of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'', contestant [[https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/14/article-2278444-1791AE1F000005DC-643_634x425.jpg Leonard Cooper]] remarked that a fellow student hid a highlighter pen in his afro, which went undiscovered for several days.
188	* Some Sikh warriors would wear a trident, or Trehsool Mukh, in their turbans. Their hair itself was wound around the skull to protect it. [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15480741 Source.]]
189	* In the great days of the French court at Versailles, society ladies and courtiers favoured ''really'' big hair. The pompadour style involved piling up both long natural hair and adding hair extensions into progressively more baroque styles which were practically welded into place, which often incorporated cages of birds, pet animals in cages, and in one instance a brief fad for entire ''clocks'' incorporated into the pellicure....
190	* Oral tradition in Suriname has quite a few stories about slaves hiding rice or other grains in their hair as an emergency food source.
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