Wild animal meat is generally forbidden, although eland and buffalo meat is allowed. This responsibility, shared with a few select others, involves providing leadership through a series of complex rituals. Like many other tribes, Maasai youth are not circumcised until mature. Every twelve to fifteen years a new age-set is initiated together. Warriors are not permitted to drink milk in their parents' huts or to eat meat in the i-manyat .
Meat is provided for the warriors by killing oxen away from the settlements.
The eunoto 's four days of rituals takes place in the enkang o sinkira , an enclosure and ceremonial hut built specifically for the occasion. Each warrior has his head shaved by his mother while sitting on the same cowhide on which he was circumcised. His head is then decorated. The olotuno may select any girl he chooses for his wife at the end of the ceremony. After going through further rituals, the restrictions on drinking milk and eating meat are lifted.