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Title
Bride price for Membe: Minj men display cash to be given by husband's kin to bride's group
Creator
Cook, Edwin A
Date Created and/or Issued
1971
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Edwin Cook and Susan Pflanz Cook Collection
Rights Information
Under copyright
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Rights Holder and Contact
UC Regents
Description
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 brideprice. Minj display. 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 0647k).
[Title, Date]. Edwin Cook Papers. MSS 187. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb4881769x
Subject
Ceremonial exchange
Bride price
Narak (Papua New Guinean people)
Marriage customs and rites
Pacific Islands
Papua New Guinea
Oceania
Melanesia
Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
Place
Pacific Islands
Papua New Guinea
Oceania
Melanesia
Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)

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