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MASAI, TURKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



])fak 

 pei-pi 

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to prognathism. Like the 

 Nilotic and Masai peoples, they 

 are indifferent to the use of 

 clothes, and the men usually 

 go quite naked, wearing only 

 ^vai^t-belts and necklaces. The 

 lobe of the ear is pierced, and 

 so is the upper part of the rim. 

 Two or more brass rings are 

 worn tliroagh the lobe (which 

 is not, however, stretched down 

 to the shoulder, as in the 

 Masai), and from one to five 

 smaller brass rings are inserted 

 in the holes pierced through the 

 rim of the outer ear. The\' do 

 not as a rule affect much de- 

 coration of the body by means 

 of cicatrices. Women may 

 occasionally have parallel rows, 

 of weals across the upper arm,. 

 The women do not shave the 

 head universally, as is done 

 among the ^Masai and the Suk,. 

 (Jrdinarily the wool is allowed 

 to grow imtil it forms a smootk 

 cap of short hair over the top- 

 of the head. Among the men 

 this " cap-like " appearance is 

 heightened by plastering the 

 head with a mixture of clay 

 and cow-dung. I have not seea 

 any attempt made to extend the 

 growth of hair into a chignon 

 down the back as is done amongst 

 the Sfik and Turkana, and occa- 

 siunallv amongst the Nilotic 

 tribes to the west of Karamojo^ 

 But the Karamojo fasten to a 

 in their hair-cap at tlie back of the head a long string which fciUs down 

 ■ndicularly over the back, lying just between the shoulder blades. The 

 )f this string is decorated with fluffy balls of white feathers, generally 



A SUK FROM NE.\R LAKE SUGOTA 



