Bride price for Membe: Minj men display cash to be given by husband's kin to bride's group

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.

• 1971

• Cook, Edwin A.

Membe brideprice. Minj display. Summer 1971.

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Edwin Cook Papers (Box 45, Folder 11, Slide 0647k).

• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Papua New Guinea
• Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)

• Bride price
• Ceremonial exchange
• Marriage customs and rites
• Narak (Papua New Guinean people)

• image

Online finding aid

• Edwin Cook Papers

• UC Regents

[Title, Date]. Edwin Cook Papers. MSS 187. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]

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2021-11-17