The movement for this song is a succession of hops, in which the arms are held back and the legs kicked up backwards against the buttocks. (When I showed my photograph to women in another district, they said that the girl should have had her arms folded.)
One explanation is that after a girl has passed vhusha, she must walk and not run up to the ruler's head-quarters (a restriction common at most respectable girls' schools in England also!). Nor may she play Touch (bune) and other children's games on the way.
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