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studies the Budumas who produce it and makes large presents 

 to the island headmen of clothes. These are the dark-blue 



A KANEMBU BOY 



bernouses, dyed from the juice of a small-leaved, creeping 

 plant that grows very locally on the shores of the Lake. The 

 leaves are collected by the Lowan's slaves, who are of the 

 Baghirmi tribe and originally the soldiers of Rabeh. Many of 

 the Kane mbus also remember unwilling service under that chief 

 and bear his mark, two vertical cuts on either cheek. This 

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