A Pokot man with scarification on his right arm. This form of body art is quite common among his tribe. The cicatrices are raised by rubbing charcoal or the sap of a plant into them when the wounds are still fresh.
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A Pokot man with scarification on his right arm. This form of body art is quite common among his tribe. The cicatrices are raised by rubbing charcoal or the sap of a plant into them when the wounds are still fresh.
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A young Pokot woman sings to celebrate the opening of a new pre primary school at Ngaini, a remote area of the Kerio Valley. Despite her youth, her jewellery denotes she is already married.
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A beaded neck ornament of a married Pokot woman decorated with tortoise shells.
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Pokot women congregate to celebrate the opening of a new pre primary school at Ngaini, a remote area of the Kerio Valley.
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At the conclusion of a Ngetunogh ceremony, Pokot initiates rush to a sacred tree and crouch briefly while women and girls hurl abuse at them. After disbursing, they meet that evening to feast on a bull. The following day they return home and remove their ceremonial attire.
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Towards the conclusion of a Ngetunogh ceremony, an initiate must put on his mothers jewellery for a day before removing the wild sisal face mask he has worn for 2-3 months.
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During a Ngetunogh ceremony, the mother of a Pokot initiate sings and dances holding high the cowhorn container she used to smear fat over the masks of her son and other boys as a blessing.
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At the start of a Ngetunogh ceremony, the mothers of Pokot initiates will smear animal fat on the boys masks as a blessing. The boys must wear goatskins, conceal their faces with masks made from wild sisal (sansevieria) and carry bows with blunt arrows until this ceremony is over.
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