The Maasai are a semi-nomadic, indigenous African community that spans from Northern Tanzania to Kenya. To them, cattle is everything. A gift from the god, Enkai, cattle are used in everything from their diet, which is made up of milk, curdled milk, and blood (they rarely eat beef), to their housing (enkaji), which is a mix of grass, mud, and dung. A man’s worthiness for marriage — the Maasai are polygamous — is determined largely by the number of cattle that he owns.