Archive image from page 385 of Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring discoveryoflakes01hhne1 Year: 1894 360 TO KENIA slain by the owner of the property, the latter is not punished at all. The Wakikuyu marry, or rather buy, as mau} wives as they can afford, and there do not seem to be any special marriage ceremonies. Funerals are conducted in the simplest manner also, a feast for which an ox or sheep is sacrificed alone marking a death. The dead are buried in their own ground, but those without friends or relation
Archive image from page 385 of Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring discoveryoflakes01hhne1 Year: 1894 360 TO KENIA slain by the owner of the property, the latter is not punished at all. The Wakikuyu marry, or rather buy, as mau} wives as they can afford, and there do not seem to be any special marriage ceremonies. Funerals are conducted in the simplest manner also, a feast for which an ox or sheep is sacrificed alone marking a death. The dead are buried in their own ground, but those without friends or relations are left lying where they die. All the boys are circumcised in the Masai fashion. Goats and sheep are killed by strangling, so that no blood may be shed; oxen are slain, as by the Masai, by a stab from a knife or spear in the nape of the neck, after the animal has been already half stifled by the tying up of the mouth and nostrils. It is difficult to get an}' insight into the religious feelings of the natives, the only outer and visible sign of which are a few amulets made of little bundles of horn or wood, &c. We saw no fetiches, no sacred spots, but there is little doubt that the Wakikuyu believe in something higher than themselves. Generally speaking, this something has no corporeal form, and represents nothing more than a vague feeling after the wonderful and incomprehensible, but in the present case it has a certain personality, for it is supposed to dwell upon Kililnara or Kenia. Whether the natives here do or do not believe in a future state, we were unable to ascertain. TOOLS OF A KIKUYU SMITH.
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