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…The visible symbol of such initiation consists of deep scarifications from the back of the neck downward. Should a boy before initiation get such scars even by accident, he would be severely punished.3 Of such great importance is initiation…
- The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage Chapter XIII
…Before their initiation Halmaherese boys may not eat fisang or fowls. At the end of the initiation feast women give to the boys pisang and fowl's flesh to eat.* The idea was illustrated in connection with the removal of…
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DEVELOPMENT OF TRIBAL SOCIETIES THE initiation ceremonies which have been up to this point the subject of study, present certain clearly marked character- istics. Above all they are tribal: every male member of the community must at some time or…
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…It was thought that the lads had become selfish, and no longer willing to share that which they obtained by their own exertions, or had given to them, with their friends." 2 The effect of the Arunta initiation ceremonies on…
- Social Anthropology: A Psycho-Analytic Study in Anthropology and a History of Australian Totemism Chapter I
…At the initiation ceremony on Melville Island a Yam cere- mony is performed at the same time. The Yam called Kolamma has little roots called hairs, and is thus associated with the initiation rite of making hair grow and depilation…
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…In one instance, found among the Mandans of the Plains, the initiation of the youths at manhood was a most important function of the Medicine Lodge, the great fraternity which existed in that tribe. The rites of initiation in this…
- Social Anthropology: A Psycho-Analytic Study in Anthropology and a History of Australian Totemism Chapter VI
…Animal dances at initiation have also been observed on the Buccaneer Islands. Various animals (kangaroo, emu) are represented at the Kabi and Wakka initiation ceremonies.9 In the initiation ceremonies of the Coast Murring tribes we have the magical dances…
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THE CLAN CEREMONIES TRIBAL secret societies, such as those of Melanesia and Africa, arise, as we have seen, through what has been de- scribed as a process of gradual shrinkage of the original puberty institution in which, after initiation, all…
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…Before this feast the boys must see no blood, wear no red clothes, nor eat certain foods which are no longer tabooed after the initiation is over and they have become men.3 At initiation into the Kakian of the…
- The Night Chant: A Navaho Ceremony II. Fifth Day
478- — Theritesof the fifth dayconsistalways,(i)in the preparation and sacrifice of a kethawn early in the morning, (2) the administration of the fourth sweat, soon after, and (3) the initiation of candidates into the mystery of the Yebitrai at…
- The Native Tribes of Central Australia Chapter 12
…In those tribes in which the ceremony is one of initiation it is not of course practised, at the present day, upon women, but when it ceases to be an important ceremony of initiation, then the same idea is, as…
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DIFFUSION OF INITIATION CEREMONIES I. AUSTRALIA OVER the wide expanse of the Australian continent two great types of initiation rites prevail. These are the J9or# l ceremonies of the tribes occupying the eastern coast and the interior westward throughout the…