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9/30/1952 - Tribal First Aid by John B. George

NOT FOR PUBLICATION INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS Safari Teivera Tibai Firs Ai Masai Dstrict Tanganyika September Mr Walter S Rogers Institute Ourrent World Affairs Fifth Avenue New York New York Dear Mr Rogers I south Masailand desert range cattle keeplng Masal tribe which proving resistant foreign change progress This tribe banket draped women heavy rings beads sexes sense opposite Chagga Where Chagga welcome European change innovation Masai after decades contact retain their hides women substitute blankets continue their traditional blood A Masai moran warrior seldom without bladed stabbing spear weapon bayonet blade driving shaft wooden shaft connecting In istic terms spear driving weight would described having sectional density penetrate vitals heavy metal length driving blade around other bones The short shaft light grained young moran ebony Case senior moran symbol another stubborn tribal conservatism retention fixed grade system allotting uties privileges strict accordance seniority physical fitness I A appeared print regarding Masai dealing academically romantically They appear moved north capturing whatever wished War occupying tribes They number about OOO iving boreas manyattas consisting wattle scattered OO0 square miles lying astride Tanganyika Kenya border recognized theirs respective British administr ations They black Warriors steppes described adventure stories novels whose aristocratic narro nostied faces stylized artists Many everythin romanticists claim gracefull their coiffeurs suggestive Grecian helmet natural artists models Africa Cattle Masai wealth based almost solely quantity possessed They their cattle butter occasional In almost biblical scenes Naberera wells where seasonal dryness caused cattle concentrated hundreds square mi3es arond vrlde animal possession demonstrate The elders their staffs looking proudly while herds practiced drill eagerly ramps water troughs forty their drink The joung m0rau forming bucket ladder water level drinking trough rythmically heave leather buckets owest scompiug water highest spilling trough So energy season sunlight natural It uspired special pride wroperty The government havln persuading Masai might reduce their herds innovation sellug obtain better yield aulmals With tribal kudos continuing attached plain quantity cattSe government fears perpetuation overgrazing vailable range altaut present bones quality cattle With bringing saving medicine veterinary services Masai cattle natural processes depobulatiou thwarted overgraziug erosion water problems become manifold The local Britannica demograp cattle increase effect preventing Masal killing another great civil Tribal fightiu homicide suprressed greater freedom utilize every grass resulted To break chain damaging faotors major wrobem facing government I sores knowledge details dimensions other words learn something Masailand Impressions pouring nostrils The sunbaked season spotted which rather pattie cattle enough drink The skinny unenergetic cattle fearfully torpid except their three Ther acres flies backs cartages faces people They crowd layers almost unnoticed eyelids Masai children aduts cattle trough Another sight articularly interesting Wanderobo native Masai hunting tribe holding kidney fresh impala I biting gulping still quiveriu tissue gusto This produce essential sampling pastoral East Africa written later rather minous notes For I should relate someinci dents occurred starting experiences The selection story serious human injury morbid But Western everything unusual Also I become intimate I should Masai individuals stage candid atmosphere roduced scene accident might provide means viewing these people The accident place several mornings about northwest Ngasumet Naberera I first heard Masal runner someone asked medicine I thought usual white indulgence I sorry I medicine broken He should native dispensary It COU rovlde first hurtperson could taken Mr Anderson nurse Naberera atheran mission thirt miles Then I drove towards Nasumet intendin photooraph morning watering cattle On dispensary shares small local chief ofice I recognized local chief minions hailed jumbe himself uncooperative amost surly I arrived several before spoke supplicativ tones A badly miles Naberera broken falling I I would carry He could tretch stretcher office fracture I thought could hardly available would better carry lyiuz using carry They sulked suggestion I I bring possibly would cared I advised bring attention treating splinting They sulksd I right remember I bring against advice The jumbe blank henchmen Jumped Jeep motioned The medica dresser moving rationing medicine queue women babies I along Reluctantly climbed handed bringing dressings I later learned failingttel board lying ready inside dispensary shack which would fracture itter I drowe speedily daner springs rough track arrived where rather large rotten stump three thick felled In shadow trunk lying shock blanket young moran thigh gaping bloody inches across splintered Masai thigh their The bright arteria Fulatin oozin being tickly cotted If thigh artery which I bleed death minutes tapped ouger flowing dangerously His other negro fracture cases I silent moving ittle really badly showing lines stomach produce There expression panic zooming bland acceptance I backed close lowered tailgate demanding bSanket In several Masai looked their banket togas greatst possession ranking cattle wives spears Masai blood coldness Aray I again impatiently would please blanket After minute debate youngest chief aides pr6bably grade brother stricken banket bottom folded Th ifting touch He stood clean shirt creased shorts remainin unbloodied directions The reasonably straight ground while moved I several times ankle being right anles sound jagged against jagged grating audibly broken extended outward lowered tailgate I askew again picked piece about inches thick hoist ankle As I driving Masai behind called I forgotten spare which I removed space The spare lifted front Durin liftin loading movement through thick avoiding holes I person hurried surface disturbed The Masai seemed deliberate The himself When broken bones ground against another would tighten little upward chant Masai restrained voice somethin metered partly rhymed I wanted pictures vulturine feeling intervals during liting nothing I could I because superstitions Masai regarding photos because tendency During bumpy remained completely quiet though entirely conscious He taken inside dispensary board which should taken stretcher I asked dresser sulfa found thiazole guanidine drink sulfa drink nlenty water I splints cloth wrapped ooden boards being prepared I rhoto graph I thirty minutes doors sealed An woman ikely mother younger weeping genuinely theatrically I thought In another doors opened brought placed floor behind dispensary The dresser moved Moshi I0 throuh desert bumpy likely recover remaining The dresser answered questions rapped warmly taking sulfa thiazoe drinking water I Sying Casually outside assistant scrubbing blood fracture The school teacher Lutheran primary school across thinks The dresser doubtful My thing before doubts My based having dozen similar ceses through though acrobatic ayout tribal dnces hrdly spectacular future Dozens ideas observation First I suppose would social mdica ciches about triba stoicism cheapness human perhaps dissimilar thresho cviIze savage A hiosophic point limited acceptance O Masai civilized medical their persistent reliance venerated triba elders The dresser intended scene chief folowers presumed themselves competent frectured should The ready lenin dependence vailabe white outcome years uidance vision government officers might broached And As worthy these I think notion isolation resultant sufficlency individual native During season herds brought temporarily watered range crowd around scattered points permanent water assms character desert oases ocean scattered small islands The trucks plying weekly oasis oasis inter island schooners I South Pacific native truck drivers unlike boats They bring compact supplies including sulfa course frequently decide death issues whether carrying hospita hundred miles dying gangrenous perhaps disease communicable other passengers In contract whieh nature imposes creates merits admiration He enjoys freedom indewendence which distances solitude provide whenever necessary price objectivity should shame civilized felows When I drive north after water raises I whether young Masal chants tribal poems while bones splinter return herds If tribal tradition eaten hyenas personal reaction simple I might similar dignity Sincerely H A osbrooke recognized authorities Masai article An Administrative Survey Masai Social System Tananyika Notes B Records Delcember paraliy demns system because young formerly alotted primarily military responsibilities remain He recomends eriod warriorhoo should shortened aloing graduate bcome elders earier From observations moran remain completely Sen sometimes tendin herds continually litin water troughs Received York