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The Kipsigis ferment milk in gourds with powdered popcorn flower tree cinders. The sour milk is known as Mursiik. The tribe also brewed nubian gin and it was reserved for men and women in and past middle age. Mushrooms. The Kipsigis are known to gather Termitomyces tylerianus, Termitomyces umkowaan and Termitomyces microcarpus (puunereek).
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Kipsigis may refer to: Kipsigis people, of Kenya; Kipsigis language, a Nilotic language spoken by the Kipsigis people This page was last edited on 22 ...
In Budapest in 1957, a year after the failure of the Hungarian uprising, Jung is a mid-level agent informing on many other citizens who come to report to him. He is in charge for an elaborate testing process to ascertain loyalty to Kádár's regime, but he does not realize that he is being watched and photographed too, by his superior and mentor, Marko.
The office that the Orkoiyot held was referred to as the Orkoinotet [5] and was established among the Nandi by Kipsegun, a Segelai Maasai.The abilities that distinguished an Orkoiyot were hereditary and thus the office passed on to his son Arap Kipsegun though their dynasty was short-lived and ended with the son.
The Kipsigis moved southwards, settling around Kericho while the Nandi continued west and settled at Aldai. [15] Both traditions thus concur in placing the Elgon and Lumbwa origins clans as the drivers of a differentiated Chemwal identity. Certain peculiarities were recorded about these clans that may point to the circumstance of settlement.
The first name of the Kipsigis males is prefixed by the term 'Kip' and then added a suffix descriptive of the prenatal, natal or post-natal places or time or weather and situations. It was to be widely used before initiation and rarely after, only as the mother mourns a dead soldier son or during divorce.
The Kipsigis people are the most numerous tribe of the Kalenjin in Kenya, accounting for 60% of all Kalenjin speakers. Kipsigis is closely related to Nandi, Keiyo (Keyo, Elgeyo), South Tugen (Tuken), and Cherangany. The Kipsigis territory is bordered to the south and southeast by the Maasai. To the west, Gusii (a Bantu language) is spoken. To ...