Virginity was valued, for which reason young women were taught not to have sexual relations before marriage.
The ceremony included the sacrifice of horses and dances. However, for these occasions, dogs were not fed with meat because it was considered a bad omen.
Before the beginning of the married life, the bride was initiated in the Pretty House ceremony.
Other common ritual practices included shedding blood to propiciate the spirits incarnated in nature. Another ceremony consisting in prayers to the new moon, and in dancing with their ancestral spirits in an emotional event that lasted long into the cold Patagonian night.