Rites of passage: A menstruation carpet from the Samoa islands in Polynesia. Called Ie-sina in samoa
Rites of passage: A menstruation carpet from the Samoa islands in Polynesia. Called Ie-sina in samoan, this type of carpet was used by girls in a ritual at the time of their first menstruation. The girl would sit on the carpet at the time it occurred, and afterwards the family would save it as a valuable and powerful object. From the collection of the National museums of world culture in Sweden. -- source link
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