WAR COSTUME OF MASAI MORAN 



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There is really more pretension and impudence behind the 

 self-consciousness of the moran than real courage, and they 

 owe much of the dread- in which they are held to their effective 

 get-up. The short 

 mantle of brown- 

 haired kid - skin, 

 which he generally 

 wears fastened on 

 the right shoulder, 

 is twisted into a 

 o'irdle and trans- 

 ferred to his waist. 

 He leaves some of 

 his gala ornaments 

 at home, substitut- 

 ing for them an iron 

 bell worn above the 

 knee. 



His head and 

 shoulders and also 

 his spear are pro- 

 fusely smeared with 

 red grease, which 

 makes him look as 

 if he were dripping 

 with blood. Below 

 the knee he fastens 

 a strip of colubus 

 skin, which, with 



the long white hair still on it, stands away from the legs in 

 front. Eound his neck is tied the naibere, which consists, as 

 already stated, of a long piece of white cotton with a stripe 

 of coloured stuff sewn in the middle This flows straight down 



MASAI MOEAN IN WAR AIUIAY. 



