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Updated: May 27, 2025
The word HURON was used in France as early as 1358 to describe the uncouth peasants who revolted against the nobility. But according to Father Charles Lalemant, a French sailor, on first beholding some Hurons at Tadoussac in 1600, was astonished at their fantastic way of dressing their hair in stiff ridges with shaved furrows between and exclaimed 'Quelles hures! what boar-heads!
In this art of embroidery, however, the Hurons were equalled or surpassed by some of the Algonquin tribes. They wore their hair after a variety of grotesque and startling fashions. "Quelles hures!" exclaimed some astonished Frenchman. Female life among the Hurons had no bright side. It was a youth of license, an age of drudgery.
Sunflowers were also raised, chiefly for the oil with which they greased their hair and bodies. Their very name meant "Shock-heads" a nickname originating from the exclamation of some Frenchmen, when they first saw their grotesque way of wearing their hair, "Quelles hures!"
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