Maasai livestock in East Africa
The Maasai culture revolves around possession of livestock, which is their only source of sustenance. During seasonal migration, the herds provide most of the Maasai s diet that is milk, meat and cooked blood. Cattle products like horns provide tobacco boxes and containers. The skin is tanned and used to make sleeping mats and the dung is used to make their Maasai traditional houses. The herds are also used to pay bride price which is a sort of renumeration in kind paid by the future husband to the family.Cattle raiding and breeding are fundamental to the livelihood of the herdsmen who organize raids of the herds of the neighbouring tribes in particular to build herds that have suffered from drought, illness or raids by others. Maasai boys can only become warriors by undergoing initiation rites between 14years and 30 years and studying as warriors under the guidance of their elders.
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