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I chose to do the Tiv culture and if and how milk is viewed in their culture.  Milk is viewed as being disgusting to the Tiv culture and is used only to nurse their young other than that there is no use for milk in their culture.  The Tiv are located in the country of Nigeria, they live on both side of Benue River.  In the Journal of the International African Institute states that the Tiv people  would not be interested in getting married if they did not have to maintain their family name.  Another interesting fact is if a python enters a home, this act is considered a sign of evil, the homeowner must then destroy that home and must go into exile and live the rest of his life with his wife's parents or relatives.  The Tiv are  horticulturalists or people that use tools to garden and grow foods.  However horticulturalists are not as intense at gardening as agriculturalists.  In the picture above the black and white robes and headwear is worn to remember zebras, the early Tiv population hunted zebras to survive,  which is why these black and white robes are the main clothes worn.

Bohannan, Paul. “Concepts of Time among the Tiv of Nigeria.” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 9, no. 3 (1953): 251–62. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3628696.

Akiga, B. Sai. 1954. “The ‘Descent’ of the Tiv from Ibenda Hill.” Africa Vol. 24 (no. 4): 295–310. https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/document?id=ff57-025.