by each woman and girl. No joy was shown by the womenfolk on this occasion and they sorrowfully cut a basketful of the grain which they took home with them and placed in the loft to dry. A few days later, porridge made from the new grain was served with milk at the evening meal, and all the members of the family would take some of the food and dab it on the walls and roofs of the huts. The head of the household would then hold some eleusine grain in his hand and would offer up a prayer with everybody present repeating the words after him. During the month of October, after the gathering of the harvest, the Kipsunde oeñg or Kipsude nepalet ceremony would be held. This festival was a community wide celebration that was observed locally, i.e each bororiet would hold its own feast on top of a hill or in a large open plain. The festival featured feasting with a particular feature being a roast that made use of four different types of wood as fuel, a large bonfire would first be made using emdit and tekat wood, on top of which kemeliet and lapotuet shrubs would be thrown. There was often also dancing of various styles such as kambakta, a warriors dance, and sondoiyo, an old peoples dance. The musical accompaniments usually included lyres, pipes and the sukutit drums. After the ceremony, women would go down to the river and pick two stones from the river, one which they would keep in their water jar and one in their granaries till the next Kipsundet festival. The festival was described as 'obsolescent' in 1950. Children's games Small children were fond of building huts in the sand and would collect snails, pebbles and solanum berries to represent cows, sheep and goats. Small boys also played mock war games, arming themselves with wooden spears and shields and clubs made of bulrushes. Small girls made dolls out of the fruit of the sausage tree and dressed these up in skins and necklaces and bracelets made of seeds. Other games little children played included mororochet (frog), and kimnis where ten to twenty children would sit in a circle and pass a piece of live charcoal behind them. One child stood outside the circle and tried to guess who had the charcoal. Youth & Adult past times Youth and adults also