:\[A8AT, TURlvAXA. SL'K, XAXDI, ETC, 



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jMa^ai mav liaxc bta\c(l 

 tcir sdiiH^ time ill tin-' 

 \i('iiiity of Lake 

 Iiiiiliilf, lia\(' iiri|i(ised 

 their language (.-irn'r 

 iiiufli eliaiiged), and 

 lia\i' |)r()iliiecd the 

 present gigantic raee 

 of Turkaiia and Silk 

 hy mingling with tin- 

 antecedent popukition 

 of Nilotic and Eantu 



Negroes. It should 



be noted that, accord- 

 ing to native ti'adition, 

 it is only some fifty 

 years ago since tlie 

 Ijiirkeneji section of 

 the Masai wc^re dri\en 

 from the Kerio Mille\- 

 ire.sr of ],ake Kudolf 

 by th(^ Turkana-Srik. 



The men among 

 the Sfik and Turkana 

 affect aliMilnte nrrditv, 

 wearing- at mn.st a 

 >mall li'ather ca[ie o\er 

 the shoidders. Their 

 wonren arr' not much 

 more clot lied . As 

 among the .Ala-ai, the 

 Women shave the head, 

 but the men, on the 

 contr;ii'y, cnlti\,'ite the 

 till I r III till' /ii'iiil into 

 enormous cli n/ii'iis. 



They begin as \'onths bv stniining their wooll\' locks as far as tlicv 

 can pull theiu out from tlie surface of the >kull. They rnli them 

 with gi>'a-e, cL-iv, and cow-dimg, to >tiaighten the hair and >tiffV'n it 

 into ;i kind of felt. Tiii-i >titfeiiing of fat, clav. and cow-dung thickly 

 coats the (alter >m'face of the hair bag as it hangs down o\-er the 

 neck, ^\d;ell a man die,-, all the hair is carebillv cut off his hearl. It is 



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470, TWO T.il.L SLK KI.l'Klif 



