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E. Gottschling, "The Bawenda," Journal Anthropological Institution, July to Dec., 1905, p. 372. At the first sign of menstruation the girl is taken by her mother out of the village to a grass hut prepared for her where only the women are allowed to visit her. At the end of menstruation she is taken to a secluded spot and the women dance round her, no men being present.
Initiation among the African Bawenda, as described by a missionary, is in three stages: A stage of instruction and discipline during which the traditions and sacred things of the tribe are revealed, the art of warfare taught, self-restraint and endurance borne; then the youths are counted as full-grown. In the next stage the art of dancing is practiced, by each sex separately, during the day.
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