- Ritual
- Bashaliへの初めての参加と女性としての節目
- Region and community
- パキスタン・チトラル／カラシュ女性共同体
- 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
- Pakistan18 yearsPakistan · Calendar unspecified · May be 21 in cases involving court-appointed guardianship or similar supervision. · Law and supporting sources
About the rite
When a Kalash girl reaches menarche, she stays in the women-only Bashali, a space also used during later menstrual periods. Ethnographic accounts describe the first stay as a special threshold: at its close she may be decorated with beads and welcomed into a new stage of womanhood.
Researchers visiting in 2022 found that the Bashali was still in use.
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