- Ritual
- Upe
- Region and community
- パプアニューギニア・Bougainville／Upeを行う共同体
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation / Trial or training / New social responsibilities
- 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
In Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, boys undergoing Upe wear a distinctive headdress and spend a period learning discipline and community responsibilities as they move toward adult male standing.
The Australian War Memorial holds a photograph of a boy undergoing Upe, taken on 29 November 2019. Local reporting that December described special polling arrangements for fifteen boys who were undergoing the initiation during the referendum.
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