Regardless of the country of origin of the Western, the Indians always appear before the viewer without a beard. Did they really not wear them or was it some kind of move? As it turned out, this image is quite real.
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American Indians are representatives of the Americanoid race, which is very close to another race - the Mongoloid. And those, and others on the face and in general on the body, hair grows a little. This applies in particular to the beard. Both of these races are adapted for survival in rather difficult conditions, as they live in places where high air temperatures, drought, and strong gusts of wind reign. Of course, the beard here is an extra detail on a person's face. And traditionally the Indians, especially the North American ones, have always believed that the beard does not look aesthetically pleasing and not attractive.
In connection with such beliefs, all the vegetation from the face was safely shaved off by them. They didn't have razors, of course. Shaving tools were shells, previously strongly sharpened, as well as the juice of one of the plants, dope. It perfectly removes hair, even if it is stubble. The facial hair removal procedure began when the boys were still very young. Therefore, when they grew up to men, the hairline on their faces was already very weakened, but this absolutely did not affect courage, skill and skills, and even external qualities.
It is worth noting that the Indians treated men with beards extremely negatively. Such prisoners suffered more than others. They were called "people with dog faces", so-so nickname. As for the colonialists from America, who often had beards, they treated the Indians with condescension (not always and not all, of course), not counting them as men. But after the very first battle, their opinion changed dramatically.
But the Indians often had long hair. It is like a symbol of freedom, and it was not very convenient to get a haircut in their living conditions. Well, since the filmmakers and screenwriters knew this feature, they portrayed their heroes accordingly. Although the Indians had tribes that grew both a mustache and a beard, for example, the Tlingits belonged to these. Before the Europeans came, they lived in the southeast of Alaska and in a nearby area (now Canada).
The creators of the first American westerns were well aware of this feature of the Indians. And they quite reliably portrayed these as beardless, but with long flowing hair.
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