Bride Price

I have just been talking Joshua Keno, operations supervisor at ADRA, who is returning to Anumba - his local community near Henganofi, Eastern Highlands Province (EHP) this weekend to participate in a wedding.
This wedding has the largest bride price that I have heard of in my personal acquaintances.
Joshua's brother, Herod, who works in Port Moresby is marrying a girl who also works in Port Moresby... the connections however have lead to the large bride price.
The connection is that Priscilla's father is the Deputy Administrator of Chimbu Province.

Joshua's wife, Jutty, bride price was K5,000. Which I think is a bargain! They seem very happy with their kids and she is often outside ADRA at lunchtime selling donuts and other food to the lunchtime crowd walking up the street to add to the family income. She comes from 'out past Okapa' which is a remote part of EHP ... Joshua told me a funny story regarding the negotiations of Jutty's bride price that involved Jutty's mother throwing a hot frying pan with oil from the fire between Joshua and his brother who were lucky to avoid serious burns!

Anyway, back to the story.
The bride price is as follows:
10 cows
20 pigs
20 goats
2 cassowarys and
K60,000 in cash.
All up with the feast over the weekend it will cost around K100,000 in cash and the animals as extra! There is also a chartered plane from POM to Goroka for the 60 guests from POM to attend. The guests will be transported to Anumba from Goroka in 6 hired toyota landcruisers (K1,200+ each!)
The cost for the guests from Chimbu is an unknown cost at this stage.

Joshua will try and get photos over the weekend which I will add at a later date.