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Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
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tirely of skin, and asfar as the men are concerned is nearly as scanty as among thepure Nilotes, though the women are more fully clothed. Toothmutilation occurs locally (Masai, AKamba); cicatrization isfound among the Bantu and among the AKikuyu and NaivashaMasai, who produce it by means of caustic vegetable juice. Lip-plugs are found (Karamojo, Turkana, Sid<), and the ears are loadedwith oriiauients, iron cliains, woodcsii plugs and the like (tigs. 22,178, 174). Except for the huge chignons of Turkana and Sukmen, no elaborate hairdrossing is found. The warriors of the 200 AFKICA Masai and their imitators wear a number of special ornaments,among which those of ostrich feathers are most conspicuous (fig.177). All, except the Turkana, practise circumcision. TheTurkana. Suk and pastoral Masai, are purely pastoral, and livemainly on milk and blood; the AKikuyu, WaGiriama andWaKuafi are purely agricultural; the Nandi, AKamba, andothers both possess cattle and till the ground; the Dorobo
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Fici. 176.—AKikuyu youth painted for a dance and weaiMngshoulder-ornament. British East Africa. are a tribe of hunters. Huts are circular, except those of thepastoral Masai, whose dwellings form a continuous circle.Rectangular buildings are only found among the eastern tribeswhere Arab influence has penetrated. Tobacco is employedchiefly as snuff. Most of these tribes are good smiths, notablythe WaChaga; the pastoral Masai, Avho regard manual labouras degrading, employ a serf tribe called Elgunono, to supplythem with metal-work. Other industries are poor. TheMasai are remarkable as possessing a stringent military system, AFRICA 201 which has been copied by many of the surrounding tribes (Nandi,AKikuyu, WaChaga, and others). The warriors are divided intoIegiments consisting of men of the same age, and distinguishedby the patterns on their shields. The arms are a stabbing-spear(figs. IGi. 1, 2, 178), a leaf-sliaped sword, and an oval hide shield(fig. 178). Some tribes employ the bow (

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