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1.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, Great Neck, NY, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals Wedding contract	Parwana, wearing her bridal veil and a green dress, green being a symbol for happiness, has already given verbal assent to her marriage. Now the bridegroom Assadullah brings the contract for her to s

2.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, Great Neck, NY, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals	Having put on her bridal gown, Parwana takes her husband's arm to enter the reception under the Koran. Her downcast eyes are evidence of modesty and her reluctance to leave her mother, who remains at

3.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, San Jose, CA, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals	Having gone to the room where Mariam waits with her friends, Yama announced to everyone that his bride is now a wife. She puts on her bridal gown while he changes into evening dress and brings her to

4.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, San Jose, CA, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals	At the end of the evening, before the newlyweds say farewell to each guest, Mariam's father has tied a green ribbon around the waist of his daughter, wishing her to "be green" which for Afghan Muslims

5.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, San Jose, CA, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals Wedding contract	Yama stands during a prayer to Allah, which finalizes the marriage contract, negotiated by male members of both families. The two mothers and other women watch the proceedings but do not participate.

6.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, San Jose, CA, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals	Now that her daughter is ready for marriage, Mariam’s mother wraps her in a brocade shawl while other women gather round to caress and smooth it. Mariam's unmarried friends will take the shawl, in

7.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, San Jose, CA, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals	On the evening before Mariam's wedding, seven unmarried girls take stitches in a gauze cloth in the hope of sewing up the tongues of any malevolent in-laws. This event is for women only, her girlfrien

8.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, San Jose, CA, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals	At the wedding the feast, Mariam and Yama sit under a brocade shawl held by their two mothers. Beside the couple are the bride's grandparents, who supervise their reading a verse from the Koran.

9.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, San Jose, CA, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals	During the reception, Mariam's grandmother distributes henna to guests for luck. It is put on the tiny hands of babies asleep in bassinets. Little girls enjoy having the brown paste smeared on their

10.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, San Jose, CA, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals	After Mariam and Yama have read a verse from the Koran, they kiss the page while Mariam's paternal grandmother holds the Holy Book.

11.	Afghan (Muslim) Wedding, San Jose, CA, 1988	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals Wedding contract	Yama, the bridegroom, arrived at the wedding the feast with Mariam but she goes into a separate room to wait while he joins the mullah and male witnesses from both families for the final negotiations

12.	African American Wedding, Matteston, IL, 1990	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals Nuptial rites	Darla and Kendall, who combined Yoruba elements with a Christian ceremony in a Baptist church, "jump a broom" at the end of the the nuptial rite. They keep this tradition tongue-in-cheek, rememberin

13.	African American Wedding, Matteston, IL, 1990	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals Nuptial rites	After a combined Yoruba and Baptist ceremony, Darla and Kendall, wearing African clothing of white kente cloth, "jump a broom." Darla's headdress is four yards of wound cloth. Following a blessing b

14.	African American Wedding, New York, NY, 1984	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals Dancing	Instead of a “first dance" at the reception, Abdel and Dyane, who are dance performers, set up a “Soul Train.” The bride and groom dance with each of seven bridesmaids and seven groomsmen in th

15.	African American Wedding, New York, NY, 1984	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals Nuptial rites	Abdel and Dyane, who are black Muslims, are married by a judge in a unique ceremony created by Abdel, using traditional elements. The bride's hair has been braided into a lattice studded with gold be

16.	African American Wedding, New York, NY, 1984	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals Dancing Honoring wedding couple	After the ceremony, the drummers strike their stretched hides with finger tips and palms to begin a wedding Bantaba, an African dance circle. The hall explodes with the pent-up energy of guests, who

17.	African American Wedding, New York, NY, 1984	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals Nuptial rites	During the the nuptial rite, Abdel lifted Dyane's veil of her own hair and laid it back over her head. He also put a stole, which he calls a laapa, meaning "wrap," around her shoulders. The couple

18.	African American Wedding, New York, NY, 1984	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals Dancing Honoring wedding couple	Wedding guests quickly surround Abdel and Dyane to honor them by dancing one at a time in front of them inside the Bantaba circle they have formed.

19.	African American Wedding, New York, NY, 1985	Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals	Rather than go to a photo studio, African American newlyweds in New York City prefer to go to nearby Central Park in good weather to have their photographs taken in a country setting.

20.	Akan Wedding (Ghana), Long Island City, NY, 1974	Nuptial rites Ritual washing Marriage customs and rites Marriage rituals	The last rite of an Akan wedding is for the bride's best friend to wash her feet with gin before she goes with her husband to her new home.

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