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The Masai smear with fat the things coming from the hand of the smith -- spear (blade and shoe), sword, knife, razor-knife, ax, sewing awl, pincers, arrow points, branding iron, cowbells, large and small leg-bells, as well as various ornamental objects -- and likewise their hands, which touch these things -- in order to remove from them the uncleanness adhering to them from the blacksmith.

• Source: Merker, Meritz. The Masai: ethnographic monograph of an East African Semite people. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1910.
• Culture: Maasai
• Location: Africa