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If you mean "what hairstyles did the Cheyenne have?", the answer is that hairstyles changed over time.

Women at first wore their hair braided with fringed rolls of deerskin attached; later the braids were folded up two or three times and tied behind the head. About 1830 women began to wear a braid each side, doubled up and fastened behind the ear. At all times some women chose to wear their hair long and loose (headbands were never a feature of Cheyenne women's hairstyles, until modern times when they began to fall in with the White American "Indian princess" fantasy).

Men had typically worn a roach (a red-dyed deer hair ornament attached to the head with a bone "roach spreader"); early on they had no scalplock. Then came the pompadour, a fashion for brushing up the frontal hair and smearing it with clay so it stood erect, or tied back with a leather strap, often with strings of shells at each side of the face and the back hair braided. Sometimes one side of the head was shaved, the long hair on the other side being braided. These braids were usually wrapped with otter fur.

A distinctive style of some Cheyenne warriors was to grow the frontal hair in a long fringe which would be stiffened, brushed up and allowed to fall to one side like a fan, the remaining hair being braided.

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They wear their hair the same as all other people in the modern USA.

Historically, Comanche men sometimes wore their long hair in two braids wrapped with strips of otter fur and leaving a scalplock at the back (often decorated with a yellow or black feather). Some Comanche men smeared their long black hair with red clay, painting the parting white, red or yellow.

Comanche women wore the hair long and loose, painting the parting red (as did many native women on the Plains and elsewhere).

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Yes. They still will for special celebrations.

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