Preservation of Nuer Culture Through Modern Times

July 21st 2022
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Back in the days the Nuer made clothes out of animal skin

The clothes would only cover the private parts leaving the rest of the body naked. The animal skin would be decorated with colourful beads, different colours were used by different clans and subclans to separate their style from that of the other clan. Initially the men did not put on any clothes at all, until tradition demanded that a man must be able to kill a leopard or a tiger and use the skin as his clothes to show his bravery in the community and be able to demand respect where it is due.
 
After the arrival of the missionaries and with the government taking control of animal welfare by banning the killing of wild animals, the Nuer started to embrace the clothes that were brought by the missionaries and the Arab traders who were travelling far and wide across the Nuer land.

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