How much was the bride price in Things Fall Apart?

The bride price could be determined by haggling symbolically with sticks. Each stick represented a bag of cowries. They would pass a group of sticks back and forth to each other, altering the number until they could agree on a set amount of sticks.

In other areas, they barter over the bride's price as if she were a cow. In other areas, the groom's family keeps bringing bags of cowries until the bride's family tells them to stop.