- Ritual
- Festa da Menina Moça
- Region and community
- ブラジル・グアジャジャラ
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation / Menarche or physical maturity
- Legal age of majority
- Brazil18 yearsBrazil · Calendar unspecified · The law provides for acquiring legal capacity before majority. · Law and supporting sources
About the rite
In the Guajajara Festa da Menina Moça, a girl after menarche is supported by family and female relatives through preparation, song, body adornment, and a community celebration before being received as a young woman.
FUNAI documented a ceremony in 2022. The sequence varies by locality.
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