The girl remained shut up in her home during the ceremony. She fasted for three days, and on the third day she chewed a few kernels of corn. On the fourth day her mother bathed her, and washed, combed, and braided her long hair. The girl put on a new dress, a shawl, and white woolen sandals. Then a feast was held for her. She waited on her relatives who had come to the feast, and her most important uncle gave her a permanent name.

Boys had an initiation ceremony at about the age of fourteen. This was a collective ceremony held once a year. The mothers of the boys wove a breechcloth for them. At the initiation ceremony, each boy received a man’s name and put on the breechcloth his mother had made. He then joined the men of the village at a simple feast. After the feast there was plenty of celebrating with dancing, athletic competitions, wrestling, and mock battle games. These celebrations were a sort of endurance test for the boys, so they could demonstrate their courage, their ability to withstand pain, and their skill in making weapons in an emergency.

Once a year the village governors lined up the young men who wanted to get married. The girl whom the parents had chosen was placed behind the man she was to marry. Very often the young couple had fallen in love first and the man had asked his parents to speak for him to the parents of the girl of his choice.