- Ritual
- Muka／ムカ（Baruya男子段階加入の第一段階）
- Region and community
- パプアニューギニア東部高地／Baruya男子
- Age at the cultural rite
- Age 9 / Age 10 / Age 11 / Age 12
- Transition conditions
- Reaching a recognized age / Community initiation / Trial or training
- Legal age of majority
- Papua New Guinea18, according to published legal-system materialsPapua New Guinea · Individual statutes may specify different thresholds. · Law and supporting sources 1 · Law and supporting sources 2
About the rite
Among the Baruya of Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands, Muka began a series of initiations through which boys entered male society. Boys of about nine to twelve spent roughly four weeks in seclusion and instruction, ending with a possum feast.
Smithsonian film records show a Muka held in 1979. It is unclear whether the practice continued afterward.
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