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the Suk, and through the hole is inserted a brass ring, to which is fixed, 

 close up to the nose, a flat disc of brass about the size of a florin. Iron 

 ■wire is made into rings, which are worn on the upper arm, just under 



472. A GROUP OP SUK (SHOWINU TATTOOING ON AKMs) 



the deltoid muscle. Sometimes the Turkana wear on the right wrist a 

 curious circular or semi-circular knife. This is a thin blade of steel 

 with a sharp edge on the outer side, but a blunt one on the side 

 nearest the body. It has a shape something like a very thick 

 crescent or quoit. This arm-knife is found frequently amongst the tribes 

 at the north end of Lake Rudolf The Turkana warriors wear another 

 curious adornment on the right arm. It is a band of plaited leather 

 from which hangs a long string of the same substance, at the end of 

 which the long white hair of a cow's tail, or of the colobus monkey, is 

 fastened in a tassel. Or the armlet may be of leather with long pendants 

 of chains. Festoons of chains or of leather may also be fixed to the leg 

 below the knee. The men sometimes luear a curious waist-helt of leather, 

 which over the buttocks has a breadth of six inches and decreases round 

 the abdomen to three. The edge of this leather girdle of goat skm is sewn 

 with small beads, generallv made of brass. The iron and .teel of which 



