Bride price
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Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be marri
A Papuan bride dowry basket piece from the early 20th century. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
Marriage
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Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between the
Bride price
…service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry. Bride dowry is equivalent to dowry paid to the groom in some cultures, or used by the bride to help establish the new…
Chinese immigrant with his three wives and fourteen children, Cairns, 1904
In an 1828 "Wife Wanted" advertisement, an Englishman claiming a "great taste for building" pledges to apply a prospective wife's dowry-like £1000+ to build property that will be "settled on her for life".
The wedding of Rinchen Lhamo, a Tibetan woman, and Louis King, an Englishman
An arranged marriage between Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa of Spain