- Ritual
- Ritual da Menina Moça
- Region and community
- ブラジル・ナンビクワラ
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation / Menarche or physical maturity / Trial or training
- 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 Nambikwara girls’ rite, menarche is followed by seclusion and teaching from female relatives. The initiate later returns wearing ceremonial adornment and joins a feast that marks movement into womanhood. Mato Grosso sources documented practice in 2024.
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