The Chok were a society that lived on the Elgeyo Escarpment in Kenya. Etymology It is noted that the old men living in Pokot during the early 20th century were unanimous in declaring that; Territory Their territory was "on the Elgeyo Escarpment" and while they lived on the Elgeyo escarpment the Kerio Valley was occupied by the Sambur. "..If ever the Suk descended from their fastness, they were raided and harried by this tribe". Way of life Residence Von Hönnel writing following his journey to Lake Turkana, remarked on the residences of the Suk, using much the same terms that other writers would make use of; Agriculture Beech (1911) noted that the Chok were a "purely agricultural people, cultivating millet and eleusine grain grown in the cold air of the summit and possibly a little tobacco." The "millet [was] grown on the fertile and well watered flats at the base of the Elgeyo escarpment, and [was] watered by means of irrigation, while eleusine grain (was) grown high upon the hill sides and was dependent on rain". The irrigation system as Beech noted, "is most ingenious, and its original construction must have required a vast amount of toil and patience". MacDonald who came across an agricultural 'Suk' village during the last decade of the nineteenth century described a similar subsistence pattern. This way of life was captured in family traditions of a Pokot man named Dounguria. Industries The Chok had two notable industries, pottery and iron-smithing, the former performed by women and the latter by men. The significance of the Chok smithing industry is illustrated in a tradition captured among the Nandi in the early 20th century. There the Uasin Gishu smiths said in regard to their ancestors arrival in Nandi; that a man named Arap Sutek had been the only smith in the country then but that after the Uasin Gishu Maasai quit their homes and split up in different directions, some of those who wandered into Nandi were hospitably received by Arap Sutek and by the early 20th century every clan had a smith. There was also a sword in use among the Nandi by then known as rotuet-ap-chok (sword of/from Chok) which was being manufactured alongside the previous rotuet that had been made in Nandi. It is possible though not clear that the Chok had exported these weapons prior to this time. Trade The Chok obtained donkeys from