ABSTRACT
Married women generally wear leather aprons, back and front, composed of two pieces of skin suspended from the waist, as among the Slilluk, Anuak, Dinka, Nuer and Jo Luo. Ameng the Anuak ,married women usually also wear a skin or cloth suspended from the shoulder or tied round the waist. Ameng the Lango a woman who has borne a child wears a strip of leather about 2-3 inches wide, which hangs down behind from a girdle to below the knees; this is given to her by the father of her child; formerly a broad leather tail was worn. In a similar way the Luo married wOman wears a tail of strings behind and, in addition, dons a goat-skin which is slung from the shoulder when visiting. An Acholi woman wears a cip, which consists of astring of beads worn round the waist, from which hangs a tiny fringe of grass string, with the ceno, a similar but larger fringe hanging down at the back like a tail. Among the Alur a tail (chieno) is also the particular mark of a married woman although it is not donned immediately after marriage.(}) All available information suggests that among the Nilotes there is a general dislike of clothing and, except for the married waman's small leather skirts, no clothes are worn regularly.
