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National Geographic : 1982 Jan
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East Africa's mighty Rift Valley spreads broad fingers into the CheranganiHills (left), where those Pokot who farm make their home. Like living scarecrows,farmers keep birdsfrom their crops by hurlingstones and mud balls from raisedplatforms, a daylong chore usually assigned to children. Turning soil that has supported humankindfor millennia, a Pokot couple prepare to lay in a crop of maize (above). Using simple but ingenious irrigationsystems, each family cultivates several small plots at varying altitudes. Farout on the open plain,grasslands support the Pokot herders, about a third of the tribe. Though tillers and grazers are closely tied through marriage and trade, the plains Pokot, with their large herds of cattle and camels, are consideredrich by theirfarming kinsmen. 125
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