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THEOUGH TUEKAXA AND SUK 



also wear on liis right wrist a round knife such as has 

 akeady been described and figured, and he will be provided 

 with a tobacco pouch of Beisa antelope hide, a 

 little two-legged stool, and a small wooden club 

 with the upper end protected by a leather 

 case. 



Turkana girls wear a little leather apron 

 which is prettily decorated with a broad band 

 of ostrich eggs pierced and strung together. 

 Down the back from the waist hangs a second 

 longer apron made of brown dressed kid-skin, 

 tastil}^ finished off at the edge with iron or brass 

 beads. Older women wear long aprons in front 

 as well as behind. The ornaments of the women 

 consist of several rows of beads worn round the 

 neck, sfirdles made of iron and brass rincrs or 

 goats' teeth, and ear, nostril, lip, arm and foot 

 rings or plaques of various kinds. The hair of 

 the women is always twisted into a number of 

 thin strands which hang straight down, short in 

 front and long at the back. 



Tattooing is often practised, and consists of 

 raised scars in parallel curves, in the men on 

 one or both shoulders, and in the women on the 

 abdomen. 



The Turkana are breeders of cattle, and in 

 a restricted sense they lead a nomad life. They 

 own cattle, goats, sheep, donkeys and camels, 

 but they only acquired the last some forty years 

 ao'o in a raid in Samburuland, and do not know 

 how to employ them as draught animals, breed- 

 ing them merelv for the sake of their milk and 

 their flesh. So far their cattle have escaped 



TURKANA SPEARS 

 AND CLUBS. 



