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heavy and uncomfortable: but no Masai woman 
considers herself a lady of fashion without them, 
and the more she possesses the higher does she 
stand in the social scale. 
2 - 
N’DEROBBO BOY. 
As a rule, the Masai do not bury their dead, as 
they consider this custom to be prejudicial to the 
soil; the bodies are simply carried some little 
