ABSTRACT
Status differences among Chimbu youths are hardly discernible except perhaps as they may vary in their intelligence, ambition, or skill in singing and dancing and success with girls. A youth, even if he earns some of his marriage costs, is heavily in debt to his kinsmen after his marriage, and in order to gain status in the traditional system, he and his wife must work hard for several years to provide vegetable food and pigs for prestations and to enter into exchanges of valuables.
