[Aztlan] Captives and Hair Pulling

[Allen Johnson]

Whenever there are depictions of prisoners of war in Aztec iconography they are usually either trussed up (usually at the feel of a dignitary) or being held by their captor by a tuff of hair at the top of their heads.  With this hair pulling...  Has anyone come across anything that would suggest that this is a method in which these captives were actually taken?  There is some value to hair pulling as a martial technique, but is it really practical?  Or is it a symbolic depiction of humiliating ones opponent?
   
  Many thanks,
  Allen Johnson

 		
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