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Notebooks

Story: The treatment of the 'growing' girl

Title

The treatment of the 'growing' girl

Collection

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Summary

||kabbo describes the seclusion of the 'growing' (or menstruating) girl in a hut with a tiny door by her mother: she has to lookeep her eyes on the ground when she leaves the hut and cannot go far. When she is 'grown' she is allowed to look about and leave the hut and walk about like other women.

Comments

1) See The girl who made the Milky Way, by throwing ashes into the sky, 2) This story is found in Book II-28

Contributors

||kabbo (Jantje) (II)

Date

January or February 1873

Categories

New maidens, Custom and daily life

Keywords

seclusion (the treatment of the 'growing' girl) , seclusion (and new maidens) , prohibition (the treatment of the 'growing' girl) , prohibition (and new maidens) , menstruation ('growing') , menstruation (the treatment of the 'growing' girl) , menstruation (and new maidens) , new maiden (the treatment of the 'growing' girl) , new maiden (customs and rituals surrounding her) , new maiden (her treatment) , new maiden (the menstruating girl) , new maiden (her seclusion) , new maiden (prohibitions involving her) , hut (that the new maiden is secluded in) , hut (the treatment of the 'growing' girl) , hut (of new maiden) , girl (the treatment of the 'growing' girl) , girl (and new maidens)

Story Pages

2520v & 2521v

Page Images

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_034

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_034