The uMcwasho Ceremony

Boy with tassels

A young boy with the woollen tassels girls had worn for a year during their uMcwasho period, when they had to obey strict rules regarding morality; that morning they had discarded them in the Queen Mother's village, Lobamba.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Mon Aug 23, 1971
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