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MASAI, TURKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



placed beside the body. 



Where the burial of important chiefs takes place, 



the interment is 



made in a trench 

 dug in the cattle 

 kraal close to 

 the dead man's 

 house. A big 

 mound of cow- 

 dung is raised 

 over the grave, 

 and the top of 

 this mound is 

 thickly planted 

 w i t h t h o r n 

 bushes. TheKa- 

 masia, Lumbvva, 

 and Andorobo 

 agree with the 

 Nandi in not 

 burying the dead 

 unless they have 

 been very im- 

 portant persons ; 

 but the Nandi- 

 speaking people 

 of Mount Elgon 

 and Elgeyo do 

 afford burial to 

 all who die, gen- 

 erally placing the 

 j* corpses in shallow 



m \ U J )'•; . graves in the 



middle of some 

 grove of trees. 

 Into the grave 

 is put with the 

 dead body a 



calabash of milk and a packet of tobacco (in the case of the Elgeyo). 



Other food-stuffs are used for this purpose in the Elgeyo country, where 



there is little or no milk. 



The property of the dead man amongst most of these people goes to 



his eldest brother, who also takes all his wives, only handing the spear 



A KAMASIA WAKKIOR WITH LIONS SKIN HKAI >-I)RE«S. 



