KIPSIGIS LION CLAN AND THEIR TOTEM

These are some of the Kipsigis clans whose totem is the LION (and their various war divisions). The Kipsigis (by extension, the Kalenjin) were a martial society, hence the boriosiek (war divisions or regiments) into clans were grouped:

1. KAP-CHEBUMBWEK (Kebeni war division)
2. KAP-CHEPALUNGU (Kipkaige war division)
3. KAP-KESOGEK (Kipkaige war division)
4. KAP-SOIGOEK (Ng’tunyo war division)
5. KAP-SYORIRI (Kipkaige war division)
6. KIP-BOKWOEK (Kipkaige war division)
7. KIP-TUIYEK (Kebeni war division)
8. TALAI (did not participate in war directly)
9. KIP-SAMAEK (Kebeni war division)