hair-string
noun
a string or cord made from human hair, traditionally used in textiles in some Australian Aboriginal cultures.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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She was wrinkled and bent with extreme age, and her head was braided up with a very great number of sakalobeek, or hair-strings, which hung down to her heels.
From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland