Fake Braid
Qing-dynasty (1636 -1912) queue from the Guangxu period, acquired by Dutch Sinologist Johannes Jacobus Maria de Groot (1854 -1921) in Xiamen between 1886 and 1890, 138cm in length, and ca. 4cm in width.
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De Groot and the queue cutters
story by Koen van der Lijn.During the last dynasty of China, all men had to wear a braid. It was the law. No more hair left? Then wear a fake braid. Sinologist De Groot studied fake braids and brought them back to the Netherlands.