- Ritual
- Maitoko／Mai-toh-ko
- Region and community
- タンザニア・Hadza女子
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation / Menarche or physical maturity
- Legal age of majority
- Tanzania, United Republic of18 yearsTanzania, United Republic of · Calendar unspecified · Applies to persons domiciled in Tanzania. Marriage and religion are subject to savings. Separate Zanzibar law has not been checked. · Law and supporting sources
About the rite
During Maitoko, Hadza girls gather in the season when fruit ripens, decorate themselves with fat and beads, and sing and dance with senior women. Women lead the rite and receive girls into a women’s ritual community.
Some accounts describe bodily interventions that raise concerns about health and human rights.
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