-AlASAI, TURlvAXA, .SUlv, XAXDI, ETC. S21 



some oft],. aoTiniltural Ma>ai 11„. leather surface is left micovered with 

 colour. The colours use,! iu paiutint^ these shields are red au.l white 

 (n,a,le trou, I.M-rueuious clav aa.l kaolin). au,l Mack 'charcoal), au.l >un,e- 



tlUies blue uv velh.widl lirowu. the .source of the>e piulueut. heiue uukiH.wn 



^''. '"''•". /^"'"' 'l'^>ii(>i> "11 the shields are iiK.>t varied, aud e;u.|i elan or 

 tiiljal dixisiun has its own. 



So iiiauy ..F the .Masai having- died through civil wars and the r.-ull , ,,f 

 the cattle plague, some of these tiahe.. or clans'ha,\e dwindled to a few scatt.nvd 

 individuals. Aniang such a people as the Owas' Ngislui .Ma.^ai, wh.., thou.di 

 still agriculturists, are to the full as brave and wailike as their pa^tond 

 kinsmen, very diverse pattern^ of shield decoration mav be met with iu 

 the same company of waniois, the result, no doubt, of refu-'ees from 



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jws OF liWAs .\i;isHr maso 



extinguished cla,ns ha\'ing joim-d them from timi' to time. The designs 

 ou the shields of the Ea-tern .AJasai are well ilhi-tiated in _^Jr. Jlinde'^ 

 book, •• The Last of the .Afasii." Somi- of the-e ilesiuus aie als(.) famil 

 within the JJift \'alh^v, ()th,.r- niav le .e,-n in mv [.liotooraphs. This 

 type of .Masai shi.dd. with the bold designs in blaek. white, ami red. 

 exteuds to the .-oath-ea>t coa-t of the A'ictoiia .\yanza (in comnK)U with 

 other ^Ia>ai wiNiponsi. among the Shashi peojile, who. tlaaigh a ]!aiitu 

 tribe s[jeaking a language related lo Kinyamw.'zi. have newi tliele>s 

 adopt, d many .Ma^ai cii-toms. The remark-able simdaritv als,. betw.'en 

 the shields (..f tl,i> Zulu ami th.' .'\iasai ha- fi-e,pi,-ntl\- attract. -.1 the 

 attention of writ.-i-> <ni Africa. 'I he iv.emblan.'i. al-o e.xten.N t.. li.'ad- 

 drcsses aud th.- h-g ornaments of white hair. It i- pos-ible that the Zulu 



■"' ProhihU' i'la\ s ami ashes. 



