Editing Maasai people (section)

=== Hair ===

[[File:Maasai woman.jpg|thumb|Maasai woman with short hair]]
Upon reaching the age of 3 "moons", the child is named and the head is shaved clean apart from a tuft of hair, which resembles a [[cockade]], from the nape of the neck to the forehead.{{Sfn|Amin|Willetts|Eames|1987|p=169}}

Among the men, warriors are the only members of the Maasai community to wear long hair, which they weave in thinly braided strands.<ref>{{cite book|title=Broken Spears - a Maasai Journey |first=Elizabeth L. |last=Gilbert |date=2003 |publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press |pages=136 |isbn=0-87113-840-9}}</ref> Graduation from warrior to junior elder takes place at a large gathering known as Eunoto. The long hair of the former warriors is [[head shaving|shaved off]]; elders must wear their hair short. Warriors who do not have sexual relations with women who have not undergone the "Emuatare" ceremony are especially honoured at the Eunoto gathering.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Tribal Odyssey - Maasai: The Last Dance Of The Warriors |publisher=National Geographic |year=2005 |medium=Motion picture}}</ref>{{sfn|Amin|Willetts|Eames|1987|pp=55, 88}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://maasai-association.org/maasai.html |title=Maasai People, Kenya |publisher=Maasai-association.org |access-date=28 February 2012 |archive-date=18 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518202543/http://www.maasai-association.org/maasai.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Broken Spears - a Maasai Journey |first=Elizabeth L. |last=Gilbert |date=2003 |publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press |pages=82 |isbn=0-87113-840-9}}</ref>

This would symbolise the healing of the woman.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ryan |first=Michael |chapter=The Demographic Crisis |date=1993 |title=Social Trends in Contemporary Russia |pages=46–62 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] UK |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-22858-4_4 |isbn=978-1-349-22860-7}}</ref>

Two days before boys are circumcised, their heads are shaved.<ref>Maasai. Tepilit Ole Saitoti with photos by Carol Beckwith. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1980. page 79. {{ISBN|0-8109-8099-1}}</ref><ref>Maasai. Tepilit Ole Saitoti with photos by Carol Beckwith. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1980. pages 126, 129. {{ISBN|0-8109-8099-1}}</ref> When warriors go through the ''Eunoto'' and become elders, their long plaited hair is shaved off.<ref>Maasai. Tepilit Ole Saitoti with photos by Carol Beckwith. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1980. page 171. {{ISBN|0-8109-8099-1}}</ref>{{sfn|Amin|Willetts|Eames|1987|p=168}}