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Bride price for Maima: Tsapinde distributes wealth received, including Raggiana bird-of-paradise feathers, cowrie shell bands, kina shells, and pork

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Title: Bride price for Maima: Tsapinde distributes wealth received, including Raggiana bird-of-paradise feathers, cowrie shell bands, kina shells, and pork
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 33)
"Tsapinde distributes wealth received in a bride-price transaction." Manga Social Organization, p. 219.
[Title, Date]. Edwin Cook Papers. MSS 187. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb4916161v
Subject: Rites and ceremonies
Feathers
Bride price
Pork
Ceremonial exchange
Narak (Papua New Guinean people)
Jewelry
Shell money
Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
Pacific Islands
Melanesia
Papua New Guinea
Oceania
Place: Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
Pacific Islands
Melanesia
Papua New Guinea
Oceania

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