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Huang, Nellie. "Cultural Fabric: The Maasai's Shuka." G Adventures. https://www.gadventures.com/blog/story-behind-maasais-shuka-cloth/#:~:text=Often%20red%20with%20black%20stripes,Maasai%20people%20of%20East%20Africa.&text=It's%20known%20to%20be%20durable,are%20from%20the%20Samburu%20Tribe.

 

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Quinlan, Robert J., Isaya Rumas, Godfrey Naisikye, Marsha B. Quinlan, and Jonathan Yoder. "Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle." Ethnobiology Letters 7, no. 1 (2016): 76-86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26423652.

 

Thompson, Katrina Daly. "Keeping It Real: Reality and Representation in Maasai Hip-Hop." Journal of African Cultural Studies 20, no. 1 (2008): 33-44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25473396.

 

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Footnote: 

(1) Thompson, Katrina Daly. "Keeping It Real: Reality and Representation in Maasai 
     Hip-Hop." Journal of African Cultural Studies 20, no. 1 (2008): 33-44. 
     http://www.jstor.org/stable/25473396. 

(2) Breeds of Livestock - Masai Cattle. http://afs.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/masai/ 
     index.html/. 

(3) Breeds of Livestock - Masai Cattle. http://afs.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/masai/ 
     index.html/. 

(4) National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/ 
     cattle-economy-maasai/3rd-grade/ 
     #:~:text=The%20Maasai%20people%20live%20in,Maasai%20women%20milk%20the%20cows.&te 
     xt=They%20keep%20lions%2C%20cheetahs%2C%20and%20leopards%20away%20from%20the%20he 
     rd. 

(5) Quinlan, Robert J., Isaya Rumas, Godfrey Naisikye, Marsha B. Quinlan, and Jonathan Yoder. "Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle: Tropical Livestock Units, Market Price, and Cultural Value of Maasai Livestock." Ethnobiology Letters 7, no. 1 (2016): 76-86. Accessed October 23, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26423652.

(6) Quinlan, Robert J., Isaya Rumas, Godfrey Naisikye, Marsha B. Quinlan, and Jonathan Yoder. "Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle: Tropical Livestock Units, Market Price, and Cultural Value of Maasai Livestock." Ethnobiology Letters 7, no. 1 (2016): 76-86. Accessed October 23, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26423652.

(7) Huang, Nellie. "Cultural Fabric: The Maasai's Shuka." G Adventures. 
     https://www.gadventures.com/blog/story-behind-maasais-shuka-cloth/ 
     #:~:text=Often%20red%20with%20black%20stripes,Maasai%20people%20of%20East%20Afric 
     a.&text=It's%20known%20to%20be%20durable,are%20from%20the%20Samburu%20Tribe. 

(8) McDANNALD, DAVID. "Letter from MAASAILAND: Seeds of Change." The American Scholar 83, no. 2 (2014): 6-9. Accessed October 23, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43871154.

(9) McDANNALD, DAVID. "Letter from MAASAILAND: Seeds of Change." The American Scholar 83, no. 2 (2014): 6-9. Accessed October 23, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43871154.

(10) Colors in Culture – The Colors of the Kenyan Maasai (blog). Entry posted June 
     14, 2018. https://dreamsfauxfilled.com/ 
     colors-in-culture-the-colors-of-the-kenyan-maasai/ 
     #:~:text=RED%20is%20the%20most%20important,especially%20in%20times%20of%20famine. 

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(15) Wijngaarden, Vanessa. "Cosmopolitan Savages: The Challenging Art of Selling 
     African Culture to Tourists." Etnofoor 22, no. 2 (2010): 98-125. 
     http://www.jstor.org/stable/25758189. 

(16) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvOOR6syTCE&ab_channel=SankaraSubramanian

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