🇰🇪 Kenya · Traditional
East African Infant Massage東アフリカの乳児マッサージ
Across many East African peoples, mothers and grandmothers stretch infants' limbs and stroke them with oil to 'shape' them; methods differ by region and people.
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- Origin
- 🇰🇪 Kenya · 🇺🇬 Uganda · 🇹🇿 Tanzania
- Era
- Traditional
- Classification
- Traditional healing system
- Techniques
- Oil
- Practitioner body parts
- Palm / Thumb
- Medium
- Oil
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Floor
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