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^lASAI, TUEKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



to prognathism. Like the 

 Nilotic and ]Masai peoples, they 

 are indifferent to the use of 

 clothes, and the men usually 

 go quite naked, wearing only 

 wai.-t-belts and necklaces. The 

 lobe of the ear is pierced, and 

 so is the upper part of the rim. 

 Two or more brass rings are 

 worn through the lobe (which 

 is not, however, stretched down 

 to the shoulder, as in the 

 Masai), and from one to fiver 

 smaller brass rings are inserted; 

 in the holes pierced through thes- 

 rim of the outer ear. They dq- 

 not as a rule affect much de-; 

 coration of the body by means- 

 of cicatrices. Women may 

 occasionally have parallel rows- 

 of weals across the upper arm.. 

 The women do not shave the 

 head universally, as is done 

 among the Masai and the Suk.. 

 Ordinarily the wool is .allowed 

 to grow until it forms a smooth 

 cap of short hair over the top^ 

 of the head. Among the men • 

 this " cap-like " appearance is 

 heightened by plastering the 

 head with a mixture of clay 

 and cow-dung. I have not seen_ 

 any attempt made to extend the 

 growth of hair into a chignon- 

 down the back as is done amongst 

 the SQk and Turkana, and occa- 

 sionally amongst the Nilotic 

 tribes to the west of Karamojo.. 

 But the Karamojo fasten to a 

 peak in their hair-cap at the back of the head a long string which falls down 

 perpendicularly over the back, lying just between the shoulder blades. The- 

 end of this string is decorated with fluffy balls of white feathers, generally^ 



A SUK FEOM NEAK LAKE SU60TA 



