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Mane-Crowned Lion Killer

MANE-CROWNED LION KILLER

Minstrels and singing villagers have celebrated his prowess while he danced the lion dance, and the hair fringe represents his victim's mane
Lion-Spearer and Man-Hunter

LION-SPEARER AND MAN-HUNTER

This Issa tribesman, on the Somali track to Abyssinia, is fonder of men than of his lion cubs. Lions he kills; cubs he keeps for profit; but men he hunts for sport, tallying his kills by brass rings on his spear-shaft