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Description: | Sleeping skin made by a women from the hide of the husband's cow. The hair was scraped off with a razor (1972.104) by women, then the skin would have been laid over branches in a small (wife's) bed or a large bed.
If the husband or any grown male visitor comes to stay the girls have to go and stay with another wife, and the visitors have the large bed. Small babies sleep with their mothers. People sleep in all their everyday ornaments, covering themselves with their leather skirts or, in the case of morans and boys, their cotton skirts. Elders cover themselves with their blankets. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | bed coverings Family and Home skin Samburu | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-109901 |
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