[234] Lechford, p. 116.
[235] “Their Virgins are distinguished by a bashfull falling downe of their haire over their eyes.”; Williams, p. 58.
[236] Winslow, p. 364.
[237] “... Their boyes being not permitted to weare their haire long till sixteene years of age, and then they must come to it by degrees....”; Wood, pp. 71-72.
[238] Ibid.
[239] MOURT’S RELATION, pp. 183, 187.
[240] Pring in Howe, p. 72.
[241] Ibid.; Champlain, p. 90; Gookin, p. 153; Lechford, p. 116; Wood, pp. 71-72, gives a description of hairstyles for the Massachusetts. For a youth above sixteen there was a long lock in front, on the crown, and on either side. The rest of the hair was shaved off close to the scalp. A warrior wore his hair long on one side and short on the other.
[242] Gookin, p. 153.