. 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. 801 MASAI, TUKIvANA, SUK, NAXDI, 444. TATTOOING K0UN]3 A MASAI WOMAN S EYES no male jNlasai is ever seen with beard and moustache. The hair of the head is shaved by the women, and by the married men w
. 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. 801 MASAI, TUKIvANA, SUK, NAXDI, 444. TATTOOING K0UN]3 A MASAI WOMAN S EYES no male jNlasai is ever seen with beard and moustache. The hair of the head is shaved by the women, and by the married men who have ceased to be warriors. It is even removed in the same way from the heads of children; but when a ]\Iasai youth has reached puberty, and is about to become a warrior, he allows the hair of his head to grow as long as it will. Tugging at the wool, and straighten- ing it as far as he is able, he plaits into it twisted bast or thin strips of leather. In this way the hair, with its artificial accompaniments, is plaited into a number of wisps, and these, coated with red clay and mutton fat, are gathered into pigtails, or qaeues, the largest of which hangs down over the back, while another droops over the forehead, and there may be one over each ear. The ends of these queues are tightly bound round with string, which, like all the rest of the coiffure, is thickly coated with grease and ochre. The whole of the body in the young warriors is constantly anointed with the same proportion of reddish clay and fat, with the result that they have quite a raddled appearance, and look like statues in terra-cotta; for everything about them may be coated with this preparation of a uniform yellowish red. The Masai practise circumcision, and the clitoris in the women is excised. Both these operations take place just before puberty, between eight years and fifteen years of age. The circumcision of the j\Iasai has been described in Joseph Thomson's celebrated book. It may be stated briefly tha
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