Maasai Enkuraru

Maasai Enkuraru

MR3768 · Tanzania · 2008

The Maasai warrior’s beaded headdress is adorned with ostrich feathers, called Enkuraru. These are worn by warriors who have not killed a lion.

The nomadic and pastoralist Maasai people are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting southern Kenya and northern Tanzania along the Great Rift Valley on semi-arid and arid lands.

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