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Karamojong

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Karamojong

Member of a people living in eastern Uganda. Primarily cattle herders, they also practise some agriculture.



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In Uganda, meanwhile, the government has been periodically killing civilians, bombing homes, and destroying crops as it seeks to disarm the Karamojong, displacing some 80,000 people.
Deadly disarmament: U.N. gun control by Sullum, Jacob / Reason
Vitrines house five combs--three Akan, one Karamojong and one Makonde; a Makonde helmet mask with human hair; an Ogoni wood face mask; a Baule female figure; a seventeenth-nineteenth century terracotta Akan memorial head; a terracotta Nok male head dated to 815-95 AD; a Karamojong headdress; a Mende sowei mask; and an Igbo maiden spirit helmet mask with an elaborate headdress.
Sense, Style, Presence: African Arts of Personal Adornment by Zimmerman, Courtnay Micots / African Arts
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