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OCR: Bride payment In this photograph men are sitting around a small display of wealth (on the leaf) and a young pig, all of which are being paid as part of a bride price. The clans were exogamous; an Angoiang woman could not marry an Angoiang man and had to marry a man from another clan. Formal payments were made by the men of one clan to the men of another when one clan received a bride from another clan. Payments for a bride extended over the life of the woman. There was an initial payment before the marriage, another at the time of the birth of a child, and other payments later. Pigs were an important part of these payments. Some of the other forms of traditional wealth, such as shell valuables and feathers, were increasingly replaced by money.