A Study of the Structure of Hair with Special Reference to a Negro Child During Its First Five Years of Growth

Author

General Edward Hamilton, Prairie View A&M College

Date of Award

8-1947

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Degree Discipline

Biology

Abstract

Many studies have been made on cross section structure of human head hair. Anthropologist have used color, texture, and form of hair as a basis of racial analysis and classification. Brown 1853 (1) showed that the hair of various races of mankind could be classified into three groups with respect to the shapes of the cross section of the shafts: circular, oval, and elliptical. Pruner-Bey 1863 (2) also studied cross section of hair shafts with respect to curliness, kinkiness, waviness and straightness of the hair of various human races. They found the cross section form of wavy hair to have oval shafts, the cross section form of straight hair to have circular shafts and the cross section form of kinky hair was found to have elliptical shafts.

In 1884 Waldeyer (3) made a general but not correlative micrological survey of the hairs of representative beast and man by means of crude photomicrography. This was the first successful attempt to use a method of representing the contour of the cuticular scales and medulla of mamalian hair.

Committee Chair/Advisor

T. P. Dooley

Publisher

Prairie View A&M College

Rights

Date of Digitization

3-16-2022

Contributing Institution

John B Coleman Library

City of Publication

Prairie View

MIME Type

Application/PDF

Recommended Citation

Hamilton, G. E. (1947). A Study of the Structure of Hair with Special Reference to a Negro Child During Its First Five Years of Growth. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pvamu-theses/1335