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Datoga Blacksmiths

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Corn grinding
Polishing of an arrow head
This kind of arrow head
is normally used for small antilopes and gazelles
Smith's bellow
This head after fixing on an arrow will be poisoned
and used for hunting for a baboon
Unadeo, one of three wives of the blacksmith
Datoga can be recognised by scarification on cheeks in shape of star
Like in other tribes in the area
Datoga men dance jumping
Large huts are buil on a wooden skeleton
and layered with sticks and cow dung. Rooftop is covered with growing grass which is very efficient as protection against rain
Modest interior of a hut

Copper is quite soft metal. To make a bracelet a blacksmith put chunks of copper into a long and thin tin and place it into the fire to melt down that the metal fill in the tin. Then cools it down with water and decorate it with cuts.

He does not use such forms to shape an arrowhead. The blacksmith just keeps putting the metal back into the fire, use the bellows and heat it until it is red hot and then he can shape it a lot easier. Then he takes a piece of steel or iron and just bang it into a shape.

It is a very primitive metalwork he is doing, he does not use any advanced technique when you cool the metal rapidly then heat it up, cool it again at very specific temperatures.

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