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Chapter three - the Ram or village community |
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the individual's relations with the kienga |
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life cycle changes in dress of men; puberty rites |
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footnotes indicated by boxes within square brackets |
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Up to the age of puberty a boy has his head shaved. He goes naked in summer, and in the winter wears a single wrap or body-cloth. When he reaches puberty he begins to wear an additional body-cloth wrapped round his hips like a long skirt; he grows his hair to the adult style and assumes a young man's ornaments. At the next winter feast of Hga-ngi following on his attainment of puberty, his first kilt (ni) [20 [Record T86780] |
