THE KAVIRONDOS 



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the record on the body of his wife. The patterns are 

 not coloured in the way we usually understood as 

 tattooiuo-. The skin is incised and then rultbed with an 



A Jahio gill showing one hi .1i_ i_i 

 arranging the hair. She haa a 

 pattern scarified on the lielly. 

 (After Hobley. ) 



irritant which produces a thick scar, 

 method is known as scarification. 



The Kavirondos are keen traders 

 cultivators. Tliey 



or keloid : this 



grow in excess of their own re(|uire 



md industrious 



