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huge earthenware jars or gourds. These heavy things 
they carry on their backs suspended by a broad leather 
strap passing round the forehead. The younger women 
pound the grain as well as cook it; and in the daytime, 
The young Kikuyu women pound the grain as well as 
cook it. 
when there is nothing more important to do, they may 
be seen sewing skins and fashioning the peculiar clothes 
with which they cover themselves. 
In these communities there is no washing day : no 
beds to make : the children require neither washing nor 
taking to school. No stockings to darn or boots to 
mend, for they wear nothing on their feet. 
