Bride price for Aina: husband's kin approach with spears and payment banner on which money and plumes are displayed

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.

• September 1972

• Cook, Edwin A.

1972 - Aina's brideprice. Bubgiles approaching.

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Edwin Cook Papers (Box 45, Folder 9, Slide 0497).

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

• Bride price
• Ceremonial exchange
• Kandawo (Papua New Guinean people)
• 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