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The day before their circumcision, Samburu boys are blessed by their mothers by having milk flicked on their feet as they return to their lorora (a purpose-built circumcision encampment) from a water source that never dries up. Each boy carries water in a new gourd-shaped container made by his mother from hollowed-out wood. At the spring or stream they daub the right sides of their bodies with white clay and pluck handfuls of green grass to tie to their gourds and through the knots of their black cloaks.
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