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THEOUGH TURKANA AND SUK 



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

 already been described and figured, and he will be provided 

 with a tobacco pouch of Beisa antelope hide, a 

 little tAvo-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, 

 tastily 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, girdles made of iron and brass rings 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 

 i front and loni? at the back. 



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r; Tattooing is often practised, and consists of 



:!', raised scars in parallel curves, in the men on 

 I 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 onl}^ acquired the last some forty years 

 ago in a raid in Samburuland, and do not know 

 how to employ them as draught animals, breed- 

 TUEKANA SPEARS ing them mereh^ for the sake of their milk and 



AND CLUBS. T • 1 1 



their flesh. So far their cattle have escaped 



