Mervyn Beech

British Colonial officer and ethnographer

An early colonial administrator and ethnographer of the Pokot (Suk), who recorded the split between hill farmers and plains herders while stressing they remained one people.

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1900 Pokot split into hill farmers and plains herders as one people early colonial observer of the Pokot
1920 Marakwet sub-groups come under Elgeyo-Marakwet colonial rule mentioned