- Ritual
- Haus meri／ハウス・メリ（初潮後の女子隔離・成人移行）
- Region and community
- パプアニューギニア東部高地Lufa出身共同体／女子
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Reaching a recognized age / Community initiation / Menarche or physical maturity / 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 people from Lufa in Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands, a girl may spend time in a haus meri, or women’s house, after her first menstruation. Songs and a feast mark her passage into young womanhood. Local reporting in 2018 describes a fourteen-year-old girl who spent three days there before her family held a feast.
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