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WA-KIKUYU 



III 



huge earthenware jars or gourds. These heavy things 

 they carry on their backs suspended l)y a l)road leather 

 strap passing round the foi'chead. The younger women 

 pound the grain as well as cook it ; and in the daytime, 



The young Kikuyu women pound the grain as well as 

 cook it. 



when there is nothing more important t(j do, they may 

 be seen sewing skins and fashioning the peculiar clothes 

 with which they cover themselves. 



In these communities there is no washing day : no 

 beds to make : the children reciuire neither washing nor 

 taking to school. No stockings to darn or boots to 

 mendt for they wear nothing on their feet. 



