Taiban Valley news., 1920-12-17
NATIVES OF AFRICA.
concluded from last week.

er children have a small ornament put
on their hair, it is shaped like pear
and in the center is shell and hls
is tied to a bunch of hair and let
hang Down over the forehead and it
is a sign of mourning and when an
older wife dies, the younger ones
wear a necklace and in the is shell
for mourning. In the Klkyyu and the
kikampa tribes they do not bury the
dead. II a person is too SICK to get
better, thep are taken out, at least
they are dragged out by the feet to
the brus hand le1t there for the wild
ANIMALS TO eat and when a man or
woman get TOO 0ld 10 be OF any use,
they are taken OUT IN the brush and
gwen gourd OF wafer and some food
and stay there until the wild ANIMALS
come aIong and eat them.
1nese people nave different ways
OF lignIIng. 1ney use the spear, the
Dvw aAa Lne arrow and axes, Wnen
tney ~ W 1lSnt Lney poison their
aIAoHs 4Mu tneu tuey have CLUBS that
Iney CntoW.
4ne cows are small and have q
hump on their back and give very
little I4.iA. 10 maAe butter, the Wo-
men lu. .I4e nI4IA 1 I'D kodfo tnaG Is
neset masAea ouC, 1 presume TO give
1t a 1laso1, aud Inen an old woman
stlaAes IL Until the butter comes, and
tnen ~ Is puG 1 nan old kerosene can
and 10 sn4p~pd TO the coast and the
hoteis tnete renoer 1t over again, and
1t is Jnen used as butter. haI1 the
world does not know what it eats.
Ihe women MAKE BASKETS out Of
grass that Will nold about five bush
els OF gram. There is a law there
that Will not allow you to give q man
a load OF over 90 pounds, but theer
is no restriction to q woman and so
when big load has to be carried a
woman is hired and her husband goes
with her, and when the woman is paid
he politely taxes the money, suppose
SO as not to get the woman in the
habit OF spending too much. The man
make their own spears and knives
They go to the mountains and dig the
iron and smelt it and then make the
tool they want. A blacksmith is q
sacred man because of his power to
make the tools. Most of the men eat
nothing but raw meat and drink the
blood and in some Of the tribes it is a
disgrace for a woman to drink milk
and eat meat none day. The men
always eat first and what is left they
either give it to the dogs or else
leave it for their wives or little girls.
The dresses of the little girls and
also of the women are made of sheep
and goat skins that have been tanned
by the natives. They all wear plenty
of beads and wire on their legs and
arms and they pierce their ears with
a thorn and then make it bigger by
putting in sticks until the lobe of the
ear almost reaches the shoulder and
they can easily take old milk cans and
put it in the hole of the ear, in fact,
some of them use them for their
banks. Most of their money has a
hole in it, SO that they can put a
string on it and tie 1t around their
waists.
The old men carry a stool with
them.
For six morths before the hoys and
gilrs are married they have to so
through different cere eonies. The
boys after circumcision have to hide
in the brush and hide their face be-
hind different things, and beg so
many beads, and shoot SO many birds.
No woman is allowed to see their face
and the girls have their face covered
with a veil and are not allowed to
speak above a whisper and no man
is allwed to see their face.
Resaie Cheshire 9th Grada