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Article about maasai customs

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The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They are among the best known local populations internationally due to their residence near the many game parks of the African Great Lakes, and their distinctive customs and dress.

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Maasai Customs

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• The Maasai have maintained their customs and traditional way of life, making the tribe famous.
• First, the Maasai are a fierce warrior tribe where women are dutied to build their houses with grass and sticks and cover it with cow-dung. Children, on the other hand, play games.  
• Men, on the other hand, traditionally could go and sleep with another woman as long as they erect a spear outside the Manyatta (house belonging to the other man). The custom is, however, disappearing.  

• Traditionally the Maasai community, both women and men, stretched their ear lobes since long earlobes were perceived to be a symbol of wisdom.

• The Maasai also removed teeth (canines) as a method of body beautification as a remedy to vomiting and diarrhea.

• The Maasai also have warriors & colorful clothes (red) as the color red is supposed to entrench fear or scare other tribes.

• Besides, the Maasai also jump as a form of dancing traditionally carried out by warriors.

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