Bride price for Membe: bride's kin, including Tsapinde, Tsiye, Mon and Komba, display pork, cash, feather valuables and other items to be given to husband's group as return payment
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This sequence of images depicts payment of a bride price for a Membe, a Narak woman. Membe had married and had children with a Minj man whom she had met while living at a settlement for Hansen's disease patients. The images depict the payment of the bride price by Minj people, as well as a return payment by the Narak people. The event is described in Susan Pflanz' thesis, Manga Entrepreneurial Strategies. Membe priceprice bek payment. Tsap, Tsiye, Mon Kambla. Summer 1971. 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 (Box 45, Folder 11, Slide 0647i). [Title, Date]. Edwin Cook Papers. MSS 187. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
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ark:/20775/bb39261273
Subject
Feathers Ceremonial exchange Pork Marriage customs and rites Bride price Narak (Papua New Guinean people) Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) Melanesia Pacific Islands Oceania Papua New Guinea
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Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) Melanesia Pacific Islands Oceania Papua New Guinea
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