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MASAI, TURKANA, SUK, NANDI, ETC. 



placed beside the body. Where the burial of important chiefs takes place, 



the interment is 

 made in a trench 

 dug in the cattle 

 kraal close to 

 the dead man's 

 house. A big 

 mound of cow- 

 dung is raised 

 over the grave, 

 and the top , of 

 this mound is 

 thickly planted 

 with thorn 

 bushes. The Ka- 

 masia, Lumbwa, 

 and Andorobo 

 agree with the 

 Nandi in not 

 burying the dead 

 unless they have 

 been very im- 

 portant persons ; 

 but the Nandi- 

 speaking people 

 of Mount Elgon 

 and Elgeyo do 

 afford burial to 

 all who die, gen- 

 erally placing the 

 corpsesin shallow 

 graves in the 

 middle of some 

 grove of trees. 

 Into th« grave 



503. A KAMASIA WAKRIOR WITH LION'S SKIN HEAD-DRESS. '^ P^ Wlttl ttie 



dead body a 

 calabash of milk and a packet of tobacco (in the case of the Elgeyo). 

 Other food-stufifs are used for this purpose in the Elgeyo country, where 

 there is little or no milk. 



The praperty of the dead man amongst most of these people goes to 

 his eldest brother, who also takes all his wives, only handing the spear 



