1. F M. Lamb, Meru District Record Book, 1927 , Kenya National Archives (KNA). [BACK]

2. Meru District Record Book, 1914-1921 , KNA. [BACK]

3. See Fadiman, Oral History , 93ff. for renta , the bull feast. [BACK]

4. Meru District Record Book, 1913 , KNA. [BACK]

5. Meru District Record Book, 1916 , KNA; United Methodist Mission Annual Report, 1917-1918 , School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). [BACK]

6. Samsoni M'Mutiga, MOS 101. [BACK]

7. United Methodist Mission Annual Report, 1919 , SOAS. Taken from the letters of Rev. R. T. Worthington and E Mimmack during that year. [BACK]

8. Meru District Record Book, 1918 , KNA.

9. Ibid. [BACK]

8. Meru District Record Book, 1918 , KNA.

9. Ibid. [BACK]

10. Meru District Record Book, 1919 , KNA. [BACK]

11. Fadiman, Oral History , 9, 127ff., "The Transfer of Power." [BACK]

12. Alice Thiriadi, MOS 94. [BACK]

13. Meru District Record Book, 1920 , KNA. [BACK]

14. Temu, "British Protestant Missions in Kenya," 336.

15. Ibid. [BACK]

14. Temu, "British Protestant Missions in Kenya," 336.

15. Ibid. [BACK]

16. Meru District Record Book, 1918-1928 , KNA, contain lists of district officers for each year. The frequency of transfer may have been due to Meru's reputation as "witch ridden," "primitive," and so forth (see reports). It is more likely, however, that its reputation arose because of this frequency of transfer, which made knowledge of either the district or people impossible to acquire, thereby stimulating stereotypes in place of fact. [BACK]

17. Orde-Browne, Vanishing Peoples of Kenya . [BACK]

18. M'Mwongera wa Kabutai (Northeast Imenti), MOS 41. Repeated, with variations, by several informants. [BACK]

19. "Native Customs," Lambert Papers, no. 9. [BACK]

20. Meru District Record Book, 1923, 1924 , KNA. [BACK]

21. Meru District Record Book, 1920 , KNA. [BACK]

22. Existing evidence suggests Kivunja (the "destroyer"), was either R. Weeks, district commissioner, 1921-1922, or J. M. Silvester, acting district commissioner, Meru, 1922, and assistant district commissioner, 1923-1924. [BACK]

23. M'Ikiene M'Irimbere ("M'Iniu") (North Imenti), MOS 40. [BACK]

24. Meru District Record Book, 1920-1924 , KNA. [BACK]

25. Meru District Record Book, 1925 , KNA. [BACK]

26. Meru District Record Book, 1923 , KNA. [BACK]

27. Orde-Browne, untitled document, Rhodes House. [BACK]

28. CP/PC/1911, Central Province File, KNA. [BACK]

29. Meru District Record Book, 1924 , KNA. [BACK]

30. Dr. H. Brassington, MOS 2. [BACK]

31. Meru District Record Book, 1920 , KNA. [BACK]

32. Meru Political Record Book, 1920 , KNA. [BACK]

33. Bellani, "Customi degli Bameru," Consolata Mission Archives, Turin. [BACK]

34. Meru District Record Book, 1924 , KNA. [BACK]

35. Meru District Record Book, 1923 , KNA. [BACK]

36. "Note di etnologia sulla tribu Meru," typescript, undated (1925?), Consolata Mission Archives, Mujwa Mission, Igoji, Meru. [BACK]

37. Meru District Record Book, 1924-1927 , KNA. [BACK]