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bride price
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money or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the family of the bride
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Encyclopedic overview
A Papuan bride dowry basket piece from the early 20th century. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
Household forms and residence
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bride price” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.