A ritual in which a spiritual leader used enkidong stones to learn about the families of the museum items (Credit: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford) The return of stolen objects is helping ...

OLAIMUTIAI, Kenya — In the bracing morning cold in the forest highlands overlooking Kenya’s Maasailand, 900 teenage boys clad in traditional Maasai shukhas or blankets line up for a cup of hot ...

The elder explained that in Maa (the language of the Maasai) a mixture of milk and blood is called osarge. Ndinini then asked if I wanted to take a sip from a calabash of the cattle swill.

Having succeeded at that, I now was on a high that I could do many things Maasai, but I stopped at their offer to milk a goat. It was time for them to show me how they milk a goat into a calabash ...