Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan (1911)
Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, inscriber. DSI, Nebb, C.H.S., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 127
WA-KIKUYU 1 1 1 IX huge earthenware jars or gourds. These heavy things they carry on their backs suspended by a broad leather strap passing round the forehead. The younger women pound the grain as well as cook it ; and in the daytime, … The young Kikuyu women pound the grain as well as cook it. when there is nothing more important to do, they may be seen sewing skins and fashioning the peculiar clothes with which they cover themselves. In these communities there is no washing day : no beds to make : the children require neither…
Natural history · Indigenous peoples · Ethnology
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