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]\LVSAI, TURKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



tassels. IMan-ied woineB, as already observed, are draped in much the 

 same leather garments as the female Masai. 



The Nandi peoples practise circumcision, but not in the style of the 



^lasai. The clitoris is also excised in the women. Iron knives are used 

 for the operations; and circumcision ceremonies are important occasions, 

 taking place every few years, whenever there are a large number of boys 

 in the neighbourhood of a ripe age. On these occasions the people 



