hair-feather

Updated: June 3, 2025

Then we advanced with cocked guns, Beuh singing, Boanerges- like, the Song of the Elephant. In the Somali country, as amongst the Kafirs, after murdering a man or boy, the death of an elephant is considered the act of heroism: most tribes wear for it the hair-feather and the ivory bracelet.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa