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MASAI, TURKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



tassels. Married women, as already observed, are draped in much the 

 same leather garments as the female Masai. 



The Nandi peoples practise circumcision, but not in the style of the 



Masni. The clitoris is also excised in the 



Iron 



knives are 



used 



for the operations; and circumcision ceremonies are important occasions, 

 taking place every few years, whenever there are a large number of boys 

 in the neighbourhood of a ripe age. On these occasions the people 



