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To this day, Mohawk women are forbidden to touch their husbands' leather work belts and tools, symbols of male sexual potency, particularly the bolt pin, a long hard implement that fits onto the belt directly over the crotch. Even young boys are enjoined not to handle their father's tools, many of them family heirlooms. When a Kahnawake boy puts on a belt and tools for the first time - a rite of passage - he becomes a man.

 

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