The easily transported collapsible huts which may be packed on the nomad's camel and the fixed cylindrical huts of the riverine agriculturists. The houses are prefabricated and portable structures, readily erected and dismantled. The erecting and dismantling of the houses is the responsibility of the women, and every wife owns her own house. The blade is long-double edged but assymetrical, ending in a tang which is fixed into a shaft of ivory, horn or wood. Most of the time the Somali goes bare-headed, covering himself when necessary with his cloak.
Sheikhs wear a cylindrical beret made of woven vegetable fibre net.