Distinctive clothing, and/or ornaments worn, or artifacts carried at formal occasions to designate status or tribal affiliations; regalia ornaments such as a crown, scepter or special emblems can also be an indication of royalty – and/or used at coronations or special rites of passagea rite of passage occurs when a member of a society or group has been transformed in some way; for instance from a boy to manhood, a girl to womanhood, a boy to a warrior, a woman to a wife; marriage is a rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood in some societies; graduation, first communions, baptisms, and bar-mitzvahs are all rites of passage
