. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. -AlASAI, TURlvAXA, .SUlv, XAXDI, ETC. S21 some oft],. aoTiniltural Ma>ai 11â. leather surface is left micovered with colour. The colours use,! iu paiutint^ these shields are red white (n,a,le trou,
. The Uganda protectorate; an attempt to give some description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under British protection in East Central Africa, between the Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and between the first degree of south latitude and the fifth degree of north latitude. African languages; Natural history; Ethnology. -AlASAI, TURlvAXA, .SUlv, XAXDI, ETC. S21 some oft],. aoTiniltural Ma>ai 11â. leather surface is left micovered with colour. The colours use,! iu paiutint^ these shields are red white (n,a,le trou, clav kaolin). au,l Mack 'charcoal), >un,e- tlUies blue uv lirowu. the .source of the>e piulueut. heiue ^''. '"''â¢". /^"'"' 'l'^>ii(>i> "11 the shields are ;t varied, aud e;u.|i elan or tiiljal dixisiun has its own. So iiiauy ..F the .Masai having-died through civil wars and the , ,,f the cattle plague, some of these or clans'ha,\e dwindled to a few individuals. Aniang such a people as the Owas' Ngislui .Ma.^ai, , still agriculturists, are to the full as brave and wailike as their pa^tond kinsmen, very diverse pattern^ of shield decoration mav be met with iu the same company of waniois, the result, no doubt, of refu-'ees from. \ jws OF liWAs .\i;isHr maso extinguished cla,ns ha\'ing joim-d them from timi' to time. The designs ou the shields of the Ea-tern .AJasai are well ilhi-tiated in _^Jr. Jlinde'^ book, â¢â¢ The Last of the .; Somi- of the-e ilesiuus aie als(.) famil within the JJift \'alh^v, ()th,.r- niav le .e,-n in mv [.liotooraphs. This type of .Masai with the bold designs in blaek. white, ami red. exteuds to the .-oath-ea>t coa-t of the A'ictoiia .\yanza (in comnK)U with other ^Ia>ai wiNiponsi. among the Shashi peojile, who. tlaaigh a ]!aiitu tribe s[jeaking a language related lo Kinyamw.'zi. have newi tliele>
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