The San Tribesmen

One fact that I have discovered regarding my culture (San Tribe, Africa) of study that I found highly interesting is that "the eland ceremony". When a boy was strong enough to handle a bow and arrow, usually about age fourteen, he was sent to kill an eland. When he returned to the clan with his kill, he stayed in his hut and avoided all women. The clan cooked the eland on a special fire, separate from all other food. The boy did not eat his first kill, but the rest of the clan feasted on the meat. Before the clan recognized the boy as a true man, he had to kill both a male and a female eland.