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Title
Bride price for Aina: payment, observed by group of children and young women, some wearing elaborate headdresses, shell pendants, and other ornaments
Creator
Cook, Edwin A
Date Created and/or Issued
September 1972
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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UC Regents
Description
Man in foreground is Tsapinde.
This sequence of images depicts payment of a bride price. The bride in this case was a Narak woman named Aina, who had married a Bubgile (Kandawo speaker) man. Aina had died before her bride price was paid. The event is described in Susan Pflanz' thesis, Manga Entrepreneurial Strategies.
1972 - Aina's brideprice. (Tsapinde's face)
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 9, Slide 0508).
[Title, Date]. Edwin Cook Papers. MSS 187. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb89773668
Subject
Narak (Papua New Guinean people)
Bride price
Ceremonial exchange
Jewelry
Kandawo (Papua New Guinean people)
Marriage customs and rites
Headdresses
Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
Papua New Guinea
Oceania
Melanesia
Pacific Islands
Place
Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
Papua New Guinea
Oceania
Melanesia
Pacific Islands

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