 Spinning and weaving locally grown cotton was universal and always the work of men.The cloth was open, heavy, strong, and durable, was white with a black-stripped border and five by six feet long, sufficient for the toga-like dress worn by men and women (somewhat as the Wahehe are said to look).Aside from extracting two or four lower incisors before or after puberty, the Wafipa had no initiation ceremony for either sex.