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It could go either way whether the SWT had an engagement necklace tradition, given Katara's reaction back in "The Waterbending Master". The important exchange is...
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KATARA: Thanks for the lesson.
YUGODA: So, who's the lucky boy?
KATARA: Huh?
YUGODA (pointing at her neck): Your betrothal necklace. You're getting married, right?
KATARA (smiling): No, I don't think I'm ready for that yet. My grandmother gave my mother this necklace, and my mother passed it down to me.
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You could read that two ways: Katara is surprised that the necklace means anything at all, or Katara is clarifying that it's an old engagement necklace that's now just a family heirloom. (Korra, for her part, seems to at least know the basics of the tradition -- she tells Bolin that men are supposed to be the ones giving them, not receiving them.)
Although I think it'd tie in nicely with Unalaq's general complaint about the SWT losing touch with tradition if the engagement necklace isn't so much of a thing anymore. Senna, for instance, doesn't wear one, despite (presumably) being married to Tonraq.
Kya's a generation or two behind Senna, so perhaps it's an outdated tradition in the South. One younger people either don't do, or just that the women accept engagement necklaces but don't actually wear them continually.
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