Archive image from page 380 of Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring discoveryoflakes01hhne1 Year: 1894 DRESS OF THE WAIQKUYU 355 and older men have their hair cut short at a certain stage of growth, whilst young girls leave only a circular cap-like patch of hair on the top of their heads. Both sexes remove all the hair from the body. The men, though the temperature is often low, wear no garments but a piece of goat-skin fastened on the right shoulder, and scarcely covering the upper portion of the body, and a he
Archive image from page 380 of Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : a narrative of Count Samuel Talaki's exploring discoveryoflakes01hhne1 Year: 1894 DRESS OF THE WAIQKUYU 355 and older men have their hair cut short at a certain stage of growth, whilst young girls leave only a circular cap-like patch of hair on the top of their heads. Both sexes remove all the hair from the body. The men, though the temperature is often low, wear no garments but a piece of goat-skin fastened on the right shoulder, and scarcely covering the upper portion of the body, and a heart-shaped bit of leather hanging down the back from a thin string worn round the neck. When it rains this bit of leather is turned up to protect the head. Very often even this scanty ward- robe is found oppres- sive, and the young men especially are fond of rolling up the mantle and wearing it as a girdle. The women wear an apron of tanned and dressed kid-skin fastened round the waist, which comes down to the thighs eae ornaments of the wakikuyu. or knees, whilst in cold or rainy weather they supplement it with a second and larger leather garment, falling from the throat to the knees. The Wakikuyu load ears, neck, arms, loins, and legs with ornaments, most of them imitations of those worn by the Masai. The rims of the upper portions of the ears are pierced and the lobes distended for the reception of slips of wood, wire, &c. ; on the left arm the men wear bracelets of ivory buffalo-horn or wood, and round their bodies row upon row of dark-blue beads,
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