The treatment of the 'growing' girl

The treatment of the 'growing' girl

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

||kabbo describes the seclusion of the 'growing' (or menstruating) girl in a hut with a tiny door by her mother: she has to lookeep her eyes on the ground when she leaves the hut and cannot go far. When she is 'grown' she is allowed to look about and leave the hut and walk about like other women.

1) See <i>The girl who made the Milky Way, by throwing ashes into the sky</i>, 2) This story is found in Book II-28

story

January or February 1873

New maidens

Custom and daily life

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