All other boys repeat the exercise. The girls kneel at the bottom of the pole and slide their hands down it. The phallic symbolism is obvious. All the time, graduates and married women dance domba . The pole at this domba was discovered in a clearing when the novices returned from the river, and it had a feather on top.
Girls knee at the bottom of the pole and slide their hands down.
Each one of them losha humbly. A group of men raises the tshivhuyu pole in the middle of the morning, whilst the novices are kept away.