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Cornrows Were Maps
FeaturedApril 20268 min read

Cornrows Were Maps

Before they were a style, cornrows were a technology of survival — carrying seeds, hiding gold, and tracing escape routes in the grooves of a braid. The oldest hair pattern on the continent, and what it was really for.

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