. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . TUKKANA WAREIOE. ending in a cows tail, and the legs are often adorned with ringsof plaited leather from which hang iron chains, or with simpleleather bands. In the pierced under lip of both sexes is worna little brass rod or plaque, and from the nostrils is suspendedan oval brass plaque. In the lobes of the ears are inserted anumber of little rings, and the young people wear their hair in 232 THEOUGH TURKANA AND SUK chignons resembling those of the Eeshiat already described,whilst from the centre of so
. Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring . TUKKANA WAREIOE. ending in a cows tail, and the legs are often adorned with ringsof plaited leather from which hang iron chains, or with simpleleather bands. In the pierced under lip of both sexes is worna little brass rod or plaque, and from the nostrils is suspendedan oval brass plaque. In the lobes of the ears are inserted anumber of little rings, and the young people wear their hair in 232 THEOUGH TURKANA AND SUK chignons resembling those of the Eeshiat already described,whilst from the centre of some of these chignons rises a fineelastic bar or rod, either erect or bent backwards, this decora-tion being also often supplemented with a few white ostrich. MIDDLE-AGED TURKANA MAN. feathers painted red. Middle-aged men dress their hair in avery original manner, forming it by persistent fluffing out andentangling, with the aid of a long wooden needle, into a kind ofbag from one-half to three-quarters of a yard long, but notmore than from two to four inches broad. This hair-bag isadorned with several ostrich feathers and a long piece of wire TUEKANA AVEAPONS bent upwards, whicli stands out from behind. Old and well-to-do Turkana men often wear on their natural frizzy hair orartificially developed hair-bag a stiff felt hat, of various forms,made of matted human hair, and further adorned with cowryshells. Yet another head-dress occasionally affected by young
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