The Nkumbi ceremony is the initiation ceremony for young boys. When she went to her mother, her mother beat her too and forced her to marry. Kenge got his sister to marry Taphu by beating her and publicly shaming her in front of the village. The marriage ceremony requires the bridegroom to give away one of his "sisters" to the bride's brother. What does the groom provide for the bride's mother? How did Kenge get his sister to marry Taphu? The village ceremony requires great feasting and decorative makeup. Section 3: Marriage - Describe this event. In order to get into the house they must brave an armed circle of mothers surrounding the house, who beat them relentlessly. Boys are invited to the elima house by being whipped by one of the elima initiates. They view menstrual blood as a sign of life and fertility and so the girls are taken to stay with their friends and learn all the songs a woman must know as well as the art of motherhood. For the pygmies the elima is a time of celebration. They seclude the young girls from everyone but their female relatives until she names a boy who is supposedly responsible for her bleeding and then if her parents approve the boy is given the option of taking responsibility, by which he is agreeing to marry her. They view the menstrual blood as a sign of infidelity and promiscuity. How are the boys invited in, and how do they get inside? The villagers regard the elima as shameful. Compare the attitudes of the Pygmies and Villagers about it.
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