Bride price for Maima: Molo the groom's group dances with payment banner of feather and shell valuables for bride's clan

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 30) Similar to Plate 10, page. 142, in Manga Social Organization. "A Bride-price payment banner is being stuck in the ground at t... Papua New GuineaMelanesiaPacific IslandsWestern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)Oceania
Display date:
March 2, 1962
Location:
Papua New Guinea
Format:
image
Collections:
Digital Public Library of America
Contributors:
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Content partner:
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
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