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WA-KIKUYU 
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have described the comic side of “ the drinking of 
warm blood ” in their interesting account of the Kikuyu 
people. 
They make an alcoholic drink from the juice of the 
sugar cane. The juice is obtained by pounding the 
cane in a trough with wooden pestles. This is the 
A Man of Kiku}^! with a gallipot in 
the distended lobe of the ear. 
work of the women. A fermented drink is also made from 
honey. The Wa-Kikuyu are fond of honey, and honey 
barrels are seen fixed in the branches of an isolated 
tree. A honey box in a tree in the Kikuyu country is 
a feature in the landscape. It is a wooden cylinder, 
