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NILOTIC NEGROES 



or, in the case of the Masai proper, and perhaps of the cave-dwelling 

 tribes of Mount Elgon, low oblong dwellings with flat roofs. The Nile 



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LEXDU WOMAN (PROBABLY OF MIXED LEX Ml' AND MAM STOCK) FROM 

 WEST COAST OF LAKE ALBERT 



tribes build small granaries of wattle and daub, with a thatched roof 

 similar to those existing 1 throughout the greater part of Negro Africa. 

 The Bari, however, according to Major Delme Radcliffe, build thatched 

 houses occasionally with a continuous descent of grass in the somewhat 

 untidy fashion of the Bantu Negroes. The Laiuka people (who, though 

 somewhat akin to the Masai, nevertheless are Nilotic in many of their 

 habits and customs) build funnel-shaped "flounced" roofs of great height. 

 Amongsl the Acholi the framework of house and roof is in one piece, 



