19 September 2006


I observed that many of the males (both young and old) wore only a blanket wrapped around their loins. Many of them wore large hoops or long chains dangling from their cut earlobes.
Some were dressed in more “Western” style clothing, albeit rather clumsily. Most all of them wore rubber sandals made from recycled tires (like the Masaai wear). Practically all the males walked with a “lokit” (walking stick) and a “kaydeke” (hand-carved wooden stool/headrest). They would typically prop the lokit near an armpit and lean into it while crossing one leg over the other at the ankle. They maintained this apparently comfortable pose while absentmindedly watching their goats. If they got tired, they could sit on the kaydeke, or even lay down using it to prop up their head.