In the village called Songo there are beautiful red paintings in the cliffs known to be the location of a circumcision ceremony every three years. Serendipitously, we arrived on a day when a ceremony was taking place. Passing mud houses and granaries in the village below to reach the rock outcrop on which the circumcision rites were conducted, we saw boys performing on the rock ledge above and could hear them from great distances in the village. The circumcision had been performed three days earlier and for 25 days the dozens of boys would remain on the rock in a secluded compound that is guarded by older boys. The older boys are responsible for guarding the younger ones and taking care of them; the older boys also paint tribal symbols on the cliff face wall while they wait. I slowly approached and saw these newly circumcised boys sitting exactly as they were photographed with the rock paintings behind them.