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How could you forget about the Somali nomad's headrest, this is where the name Barkin comes from. You thought our ancestors slept on pillows?

Somali people back in the day used to rest their head on this Barkin, so their faces weren't vulnerable to snakes and scorpions and also to prevent deep sleep so they can watch their herd while they're sleeping (raggeedi). And also to keep their hairdo look fresh to death.

This is not entirely unique to Somalis, the Boni people in Northeast Kenya have it too, but nobody knows them, so let's just pretend they don't exist. As a matter of fact I'm gonna search the wikipedia page of the Boni people and delete the page.

^^

Irir is essential and very unique in every Somali household

famine
skinny bodies
anjera

barakaboy10 wrote:famine
skinny bodies
anjera

That's not a unique factor to Somali, all three are generated widely in East Africa.

Rabshoole wrote:

barakaboy10 wrote:famine
skinny bodies
anjera

That's not a unique factor to Somali, all three are generated widely in East Africa.

the areas where famine usually happens, whether be it in Kenya or Ethiopia, are inhabited almost exclusively by ethnic Somalis.

the other thing, Kenyan's cannot be described as skinny people but most of Ethiopians fit that description, however.

and Somali anjera, not Ethiopian anjera, is commonly used only by ethnic Somalis.

yes you are right that all these three things are found in east Africa but they are also found mostly in Somali populated areas only.

1. arrogant
2.lazy
3. unorganized/ very primitive
4. anarchic
5. ignorant
6.hateful to one another
7. Think their clan is a country/nation
8.love to bring each other down,
9. will prostitute them self for any foreign leader/ spy and let him/her divide them for few dollars,
10.all the men are skinny and chewing khat in the local merfish while the wifes are strugling with 10 kids while living as single mothers on welfare
shit I could add more but you said only 10 things unique to Somalis so Iam gonna stop here,

http://www.marisamontes.com/all_about_camels.htm

"These camels were domesticated even earlier than the Bactrians (two-humped, Asian camels), before 3000 B.C. in the Arabian peninsula. The term "dromedary" is derived from the dromos (Greek for "road") and thus is directly applicable only to the racing or riding dromedary. However, the term is used throughout the world to describe this species. Dromedaries were first associated with nomadic Semitic cultures and did not become important until the rise of the Arabian culture. They became important domestic animals only with the Moslem conquests of Egypt in the 7th to 11th centuries A.D."

I read somewhere that the Beja acquired camels in about the ninth century, so Somalis must have acquired them some time after that.

http://camelfarm.com/camels/camels_australia.html

The camels in Australia were a British import that were used for various expeditions.

Tutankhamen had an identical barkin in his tomb.

http://iw-chameleon.bravepages.com/4barti.htm

Grant wrote:http://www.marisamontes.com/all_about_camels.htm

"These camels were domesticated even earlier than the Bactrians (two-humped, Asian camels), before 3000 B.C. in the Arabian peninsula. The term "dromedary" is derived from the dromos (Greek for "road") and thus is directly applicable only to the racing or riding dromedary. However, the term is used throughout the world to describe this species. Dromedaries were first associated with nomadic Semitic cultures and did not become important until the rise of the Arabian culture. They became important domestic animals only with the Moslem conquests of Egypt in the 7th to 11th centuries A.D."

I read somewhere that the Beja acquired camels in about the ninth century, so Somalis must have acquired them some time after that.

http://camelfarm.com/camels/camels_australia.html

The camels in Australia were a British import that were used for various expeditions.

Those camels were compensation after 2 somali men killed an australian man who travelled with the british, they gave them a camel and a she-camel and they breeded and now there is a camel community in australia.

Read the article. The Australian camels were from the Canary Islands, India and Pakistan. The Aussies had a regular stud for fifty years and bred a superior animal.

Grant wrote:Tutankhamen had an identical barkin in his tomb.

http://iw-chameleon.bravepages.com/4barti.htm

Fuck,I was trying to work out what the heck a "Barkin" was 'tll I seen the pic
I was reading BARKING