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MASAI, TURKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



assemble on the tops of bills round groves of big trees. FVasting and 

 dancing take place, and many boys (about the age of fifteen) are 

 circumcised on the same day by medicine men skilled in the art. Each 

 lad pays a fee of one goat. They do not usually decorate their bodies 

 with any tattooing or cicatrisation. As tribal markings they bore two 

 small holes in the upper part of the rim of the ear. The lobe of the 



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ear is pierced, and widened by degrees till it hangs down as in Fig. 488. 

 The lobe is hung with bunches of iron chains, beads, or brass-headed 

 nails. The Andorobo insert through the lobe of the ear an extraordinary 

 wooden cylinder, with two long, upright handles, like a milking pot. 

 The Andorobo also pierce the upper part of the rim of the ear and pass 

 through the hole a long rod of wood or metal (see Fig. 481). The 



