ABSTRACT
This chapter examines each of the clan histories in its own right and can only use the major ethnic processes as rough indicators. Rendille Odoola have established clan equivalences with other Rendille clans: Makhalan with Gaaldeilan, Dafardai and Mooga with Tubcha, Nurre with Saale, Busunna with Elegella. In Rendille tradition, the story about Iris has a very marginal role and does not relate to the politically important clan histories. The Rendille accounts about people who were separated by the lake only involve two clans and parts of a third do not mention the Gabbra at all. The Rendille Harrau should not be examined in isolation but as a part of their subclan Dokhle, which comprises Dokhle proper, Hajufle, Harrau and Ogorjebo. This subclan seems to be an old agnatic unit, as evidenced by similarity of their ritual functions. The migration from Rendille Fur to Gabbra Fur is that of Karchawa, the father of the trader and county councillor Elema Karchawa.
