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Title
Bride price for Maima: Molo the groom's group dances with payment banner of feather and shell valuables for bride's clan
Creator
Cook, Edwin A
Date Created and/or Issued
March 2, 1962
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Edwin Cook and Susan Pflanz Cook Collection
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
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Rights Holder and Contact
UC Regents
Description
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Edwin Cook Papers (Archive negative 2, Roll 16, Envelope 59-69, Frame 30)
Similar to Plate 10, page. 142, in Manga Social Organization. "A Bride-price payment banner is being stuck in the ground at the head of teh displayed sides of pork. Plumes of paradise raggiana encericle the shell wealth."
[Title, Date]. Edwin Cook Papers. MSS 187. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb24588013
Subject
Marriage customs and rites
Dance
Shell money
Ceremonial exchange
Narak (Papua New Guinean people)
Headdresses
Bride price
Papua New Guinea
Melanesia
Pacific Islands
Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania
Place
Papua New Guinea
Melanesia
Pacific Islands
Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
Oceania

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