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Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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well-developed military system, are the Turkana and Suk round
Lake Rudolf, and the Nandi and Lumbwa, between Lake Baringo
and Victoria Nyanza. With these should be classed, on linguistic
and ethnographical grounds, the Karamojo, who are nevertheless
physically Bantu. All these tribes appear to be connected
through the Latuka with the Bari and the true Nilotes ; they are,
like the last, pastoral tribes with the exception of a section of the
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Fig. 174.—A Kikuyu girl in ceremonial dress.
British East Africa.

Masai who have developed agricultural habits, and are occasion-
ally known as WaKuafi. With the Masai, chiefly in and around
the Mau forests, are usually found a hunting tribe of inferior status,
known as the Dorobo. For the sake of convenience, certain of
these Bantu tribes, who have adopted the habits and customs
of the Masai, will be described here. These are, in a southerly
direction : the AKkamba, between Kilima Njaro and the river ;
the WaTaita, south-east of the last ; the WaChaga, on the southern
slopes of Kilima Njaro; and also the AKikuyu around Mt.
Kenia, who resemble the agricultural Masai. The first four seem

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to have moved south-west from the Tana valley, where the
WaPokomo, probably the parent stock, is still settled. They
would appear to be connected also with the WaGiriama, Wa-
Duruma, and WaDigo, nearer the coast and south of the Sabaki
River, who again show signs of having come under the influence
of the Masai, and may even have become connected with them by
blood.

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