. The Nandi, their language and folk-lore. clan to drinkfermented liquor. Menstruation. Menstruous girls and women keepthemselves in seclusion. They may not cook food orshake anybody by the hand, and they must not bestruck. When men allude to them during the timethey have their periods, they do not make use of theordinary word, sunonik (menstruous people), but referto them as having been killed by the Kavirondo {tljnkche-ko-par Lemek). All women must bathe when their periods arefinished, and girls must be careful not to go to thewarriors huts for some days afterwards for fear ofbecoming pregna
. The Nandi, their language and folk-lore. clan to drinkfermented liquor. Menstruation. Menstruous girls and women keepthemselves in seclusion. They may not cook food orshake anybody by the hand, and they must not bestruck. When men allude to them during the timethey have their periods, they do not make use of theordinary word, sunonik (menstruous people), but referto them as having been killed by the Kavirondo {tljnkche-ko-par Lemek). All women must bathe when their periods arefinished, and girls must be careful not to go to thewarriors huts for some days afterwards for fear ofbecoming pregnant after intercourse with the men. Games. As elsewhere in Africa and in other partsof the world, Nandi children have toys and play atdifferent games. Small children are fond of buildinghuts in the sand, and collecting snails, pebbles, andsolanum berries, which they say are cattle, goats, and Figs. 47, 48 sheep; boys make tops out of the Kimoltiet^irmt and (scale i^). Boys wooden spears. See also enigma No. 48, p. 144. - Vatigueria m
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