ABSTRACT
Nuer, they have nothing to trade except their cattle and all they desire IS more cattle.(l) The Lango do exchange surplus produce and ivory for cattle with Arab traders. Internally, the Nilotes are tao self-sufiicient for there to be more than an occasional exchange of articles. Same people make better pots, baskets and so forth than others, while only smiths can provide iron objects. People who want things from them either ask in the name of kinship or friendship or give some equivalent in the form of millet or garden produce in exchange. !here is no third person acting as intermediary. !here is little inequality of wealth, for these is no object in acquiring more than can be used by a family. !here may be sorne exchange of goods between the Nilotic groups bordering on each other. !he Jo Luo, being superior iron-workers, supply the Dinka with spear-heads. !he Anuak supply their neighbours with canoes. All this exchange is very elementary and scanty and it may be said that, apart from a limited exchange of material goods amon~ themselves, the concept of trade scarcely exists among the Nilotes.
