he braid has is the appendix cylindrical, or slightly conical, which is located at the extreme end of the cap, at the back, and which goes down along the spinal column. Its principal function was to contain the cloth surplus falling to the back, on the scapulas and the back : instead of letting hang cloth, one brought closer and gathered his ends in this appendix. All the times, the braid is decorated named regular reasons "scratches".

There are three types of braids : the type (1), the type (2) and the type (3).

The braid of the type (1) is that which one finds only during the Old Kingdom. It has as a principal characteristic to be truly stuck to contours rounded of the back, which gives him a very recognizable aspect. Thicker at the base, on the level of the nape of the neck, it is thinned slightly while going down in the back. This braid will be always slightly shorter and thinner than the two other types.

The braid of the type (2) has for principal characteristic to belong only to one Pharaoh : Sesostris I, and with only one whole of statues : those of its funerary complex of Lisht. This braid, very recognizable, is right with a very light curve in its central part. More remarkable on this type of braid is that on the level of its base, in contact with the cap, an empty space appears with the back of the nape of the neck, at the place where braid and neck are not in contact, contrary with the other types of braids.

This type of braid is represented the most by far, because it is present beginning of XIIe dynasty until theGreco-Roman times. The type (3) is dissociated from both others by a better homogeneity of contours than it offers to the back of the headcloth. On this type, the braid follows contours of the back again and the passage between the braid, as with the Old Kingdom, but marked by a very open angle and strongly softened by a round-off.