In countries where women are still openly treated as chattels there are curious ways of estimating the value of a wife. A bear ham is the price of a wife among the Ainus. The Kaffir figure varies from four to eight oxen, according to the competition for the particular bride. A score of cartridges buys a wife in Uganda, the Australian black gives the weight of his better half in butter, and the Tartars in Turkestan are said to get as many wives as they wa.nt at the rate of a box of matches each.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 187, 8 August 1919, Page 9
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