2/9 Adventurer Peter McQueen described a Luo chief he met.
3/9 “(the Chief) was adorned with an immense crown of black ostrich feathers, and two long colobus monkey tails hanging down from his shoulders and waist to denote his position.
4/9 He commands an army of thousands of fierce-looking savages, armed with long dagger-pointed spears, protected with oval shaped shields, bent back on the sides to hide the flanks of the warrior. 
5/9 He wears a fantastic headdress, beautified with white ostrich feathers. His tribe represents one of the largest of the black-skinned nations of mid-Africa; also one of the most industrious....”
6/9 MacQueen did not seem to have much faith in the future of the Maasai, believing that this community of pastoralists would disappear.
7/9 “The Kavirondo and Wakikuyu have a future; while the Maasai will probably die out by the advent of the white man’s civilization”, he wrote.
8/9 In his memoirs, MacQueen also gives us a glimpse of the nutrition of the Luo.
9/9 “The Ja-Luo live chiefly by agriculture. They eat any kind of meat, even crocodiles. The young warriors eat lion and leopard to make them courageous in war. These Victoria Nyanza aborigines have a superb war dance....”
Sigh. Instagram brought down this photo for “breaching” their policies...
