elderly women bearing traditional gifts per historical custom.
The bride and the groom will sit in front of the community
and receive their gifts. Each giver may also publicly give the
new couple advice, and women carrying pots like this have
been known to say things like "Mary, today I give a big
pot; when I come to visit to you, I do not want you to cook
me a small meal, and say it is because I only had a small
pot". But even this statement, has a more serious metaphorical
meaning, since as a rule, African speak in parables, and
allusions whose deeper implication is understood after long
inspection, introspection or experience...