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Volume 2 41 |
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HUMAN PELICAN IN THE WILDERNESS |
MASAI WOMEN AT SOUTHERN GUASO MYIRO, KENYA COLONY |
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| Men take their ease as they do their pleasure in many different ways. This, the favourite attitude of rest adopted by the Somalis, seems to have been chosen in imitation of the birds | In some parts of Africa long hair is not a glory to a woman. These ladies, whose tribe is deemed the aristocracy of British East Africa, have shaven heads, and pride themselves mightily on the brass that binds them round neck and arms and legs. The extra wide coils dependent from her ears distinguish the lady on the right as the wife of a chief |