From Paul Mescal at the Baftas to Emma Corrin’s Governors Awards “mixie” haircut, the 1970s-inspired shaggy mullet is everywhere. But the now-popular “business up front and party in the back” style has a political history stretching far beyond the red carpet and the influence of pop icons such as David Bowie.
In fact, descriptions of mullet-like hairstyles feature prominently in the very first Anglo-Indigenous encounters of the 17th century.
In 1622, Plymouth colonist Edward Winslow described the Abenaki Native American leader named Samoset as having: “the haire of his head blacke, long behind, onely short before, none on his face at all.”
