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The milk-maid with the water poured a little over the hands of Mukorogi who then held them aloft as if praying until all was ready for him to milk. He squatted at the right side of the cow and one of the men folded his garments under him so that they were out of his way and he need not touch them, for after his hands had been washed he had to be careful to touch nothing.

• Source: Roscoe, John. The Bakitara or Bunyoro: the first part of the report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. Cambridge: The University Press, 1923.
• Culture: Banyoro
• Location: Africa