Setting up cross-stick from which to hang shell money from.

Wa'i bride price payment for 'Elota's daughter, Funaa, to marry Larikeni's son, Biri Foowa'i.

• February 1975

• Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Roger M. Keesing Papers (MSS 427).

• Malaita (Solomon Islands)
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Solomon Islands

• Bride price
• Dwellings
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Marriage customs and rites
• Men

• image

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• Roger M. Keesing Papers

• Heirs of Roger M. Keesing

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2021-11-15