 Women traditionally carry their babies on their backs with a strip of clothing binding the two with a knot at her chest , a practice used by many ethnic groups across Africa . This method has been modernized in the form of the child carrier . Maidens usually wore a short wrapper with beads around their waist and other ornaments such as necklaces and beads . Both men and women wore wrappers . Men would wear loin cloths that wrapped round their waist and between their legs to be fastened at their back , the type of clothing appropriate for the intense heat as well as jobs such as farming . 
