Samburu

• Dancing is a significant part of Samburu culture. Their dancing is similar to that of the Maasai people with men dancing in a circle and jumping high from a standing position. the Samburu do not useany instruments to accompany their dancing and singing.
• The Samburu people traditionally in a vibrant red cloth wrapped like a skirt and a white sash. This is accompanied with many colorful beaded earrings, bracelets, anklets and necklaces. Each piece of jewellery worn represents the status of the person wearing them and occasion
• Samburu traditional settlements known as ‘Manyattas’are built by women
• Much like the Maasai who they are closely related to the Samburu people co-exist with life and today, help run ecofriendlytourist lodges around where they settle

Kuria

• They have several musical instruments including thezeze, which is like a primitive violin
• The kuria people In the pastwere pastoral , today however the Kuria people are known as agriculturists
• The Kuria are also know for their peculiar marriage customs that have been carried forward from their traditional beliefs http://www.bluegecko.org/kenya/tribes/kuria/marriage.htm

Ilchamus

• They are the smallest ethnic group in Kenya settled near the Kokwa island in Lake Baringo
• Materials such as beadwork (necklaces, bracelets, headgears, and beaded cloths), woodcarving (clubs/rungu, bows and traditional stool) and blacksmith works (spears, swords and arrows) are popularly made among the illchamus
• They share many practical cultural practices as the other Maa Speakers (Samburu, Maasai)

Leysan

Considered a somalisub tribe and shares most cultural practices with them