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We are wellcoming all who feel attached and have been supportive of the maasai mission to send in their pictures dorning their maasaiwarrior products in wherever place in the world they are. This will be a support page where we encourage and promote the philosophy of the Maasai people, Living in your natural state. LYNS.

This is a show of appreciation to all those who have given us a shoulder to lean on and remain to stand together with us in our struggles.

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THE MAASAI

Diet The Maasai depend on their cattle for food, thus traditionally makes milk, butter, honey, blood, and meat their staple food. It's only now that cereals maize meal, rice, potatoes, cabbages have started being taken as food supplements, and even making the Maasi to start cultivation of crops. Cow blood is taken on special occasions, mostly given to a woman who has given birth (entomononi), the circumcised youth(olesipolioi), the sick (oltamueyiai) and regularly to the drunk elders (ilamerak), who use it to alleviate intoxication and hangovers. Blood is very rich in protein and is good for the immune system. However, its use in the traditional diet is waning due to the reduction of livestock numbers. More recently, the Maasai have grown dependent on food produced in other areas such as maize meal (unga wa mahindi), rice, potatoes, cabbage (known to the Maasai as goat leaves), etc. The Maasai who live near crop farmers have engaged in cultivation as their primary mode of subsistence. In these areas, plot sizes are generally not large enough to accommodate herds of animals; thus the Maasai are forced to farm. Our people traditionally frown upon this. Maasai believe that tilizing the land for crop farming is a crime against nature. Once you cultivate the land, it is no longer suitable for grazing Shelter The maasai live in loaf shaped houses known as inkajijik. The houses are constructed using sticks, mud, cow-dung, grass and urine. This is the duty of the women. We live communally, so one house holds more than one family. Clothing Wear shukaa, light blankets which are brightly colored (mostly red, orange and black)