ABSTRACT
Cattle are regarded as the one and only measure of wealth; and the prejudice against selling them or parting with them on any account except as bride-price still persists very strongly. The cattle are all of a small, almost miniature breed, but of a good stamp. Sheep and goats are fairly common among all tribes. For bride-price purposes they are equated and there is not nearly so strong a prejudice against selling them as is the case with cattle. There is a curious contrast in tribal practice in the matter of bee-keeping. Broadly speaking, the tribes west of the Nile understand and make beehives, most of those on the east do not. Cotton, grown in the Torit, Opari, and Maridi areas, is a recent introduction. Most tribes grow tobacco, that of the Lango, Kuku, and Moru being particularly esteemed. Rope is made of local fibres, especially by the Lango of Katiri and in the Yei District.
