Hold an initiation ceremony.
In the traditional African context, it is the males who are expected to pay bride price (paid to the bride's family), initiation and other ceremonial occasions.
The principal events during the winter ceremonial season, these ceremonies include initiation into the secret societies, the highest of which is the so-called Cannibal Society; members of this society recount ancient stories of cannibalism but, contrary to some accounts, do not practice cannibalism themselves.
In ceremonial rites of initiation, men wear painted bark cloth masks and net costumes.
Music, dance and singing are part of many a Kanak ceremonial function such as initiation, courting and mourning.
Among the Bemba of Zambia, in the initiation ritual (Cisungu) young girls perform a ceremony where girls pass ceremonial beads or twigs from girl to girl using their mouths (Richards, 1956, p 72; Maxwell, 1983).
In antiquity and among prehistoric cultures, ceremonial whippings were performed in rites of initiation, purification, and fertility, which often included other forms of physical suffering.
Their pyramidal ceremonial houses, centres for cults of yam growing and initiation, were built on the grandest scale known in New Guinea.
The result of Alderson's contribution of these campaigns was to be rewarded with confirmation as a Brigadier-General, initiation as a Companion of the Order of the Bath and to receive the ceremonial post of Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria, who died the same year.
Remember that ceremonial mace?
