Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive

When girls encounter puberty

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Description Employs dance routines and originally scored music to portray female adolescent rituals as a means of passing girls to womanhood. Points out how the passage from childhood to womanhood is made and the type of womanhood that emerges. Compares the rituals of Americans, Apache Indians, and the Andaman Islanders.

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