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EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 428 Modified Style of Hair Dressing, 1921. 15.6x11.3" on 17.6x12.75" copper photogravure plate. Plate date 1922. From Portfolio 12, The Hopi, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Plate 428 / Modified Style of Hair Dressing, 1921 / From Copyright Photograph 1921 by E.S. Curtis / Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge Mass. The Squash Blossom Whorls, or Butterfly Whorls, were worn by unmarried Hopi girls eligible for marriage. Hair is wound around a curved piece of wood to give it its shape.