Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu

according age-group ancestral spirits animals asked banana beer boys and girls calabash called carried cattle ceremonial council ceremonial elder ceremonial horn child circumcised clan crops cultivation custom dances daughter district duty Elephant evil spirits FACING MOUNT KENYA family group father feast fire forests friends Gikuyu country Gikuyu language Gikuyu society girl's give given ground hands harvest homestead initiates iron irua Kenya-Uganda railway Kere-Nyaga kiama kia killed lamb land love magic magician maize male goat marriage Masai mbari meat millet Mogai Moombi moramati morogi mother Mwene-Nyaga mwere Ndorobo ndundu Ngai njama ya itwika oath parents peace performed planting polygamous prayer rain relatives religious riika ritual river roracio sacred fig sacred tree sacrifice sheep and goats sheep or goats singing skin songs spears staff of office sugar-cane sweet potatoes things tribal tribe twigs Wakamba whole wife wives women