Korowai - life in the trees

abgsedapmalam · Post time 14-7-2010 11:38 PM

They live on trees, bear the only banana leaves, hunt wild boars and practiced cannibalism. Tribe loaves - one of the most interesting and unique tribes for anthropologists and other researchers.

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Group of hunters living in a remote Indonesian forest is considered the first official tribe, living on trees. Korowai tribe from the eastern region of Indonesia live in the trees, talking on their special language and survives by hunting and gathering. (REUTERS)

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According to the census conducted this year, in this tribe of nomads, whose clothes only banana leaves, there were 3000 people. In the photo: a member of the tribe Korowai wraps stone ax in the rattan. Korowai say they do not know where their tribe took the stone, but ethnologists suggest that they were caught in the high mountains not far from here.

(GEORGE STEINMETZ / CORBIS)

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Members of the tribe skillfully climb the stairs to their wooden houses, which are located at a height, sometimes reaching up to 50 meters above the ground

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Houses are built at different heights depending on how well the owner of the house to get on with other dogs. Photo: Aerial view of an empty house on a tree. Photographer located at a height of 50 meters.

(GEORGE STEINMETZ / CORBIS)

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Tribe excellent hunts and fishes. In the photo: a member of the tribe Korowai is a young cassowary, killed in the hunt .

(GEORGE STEINMETZ / CORBIS)

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Spears Korowai tribe are used for different types of production and have different names. Most pointed arrow in the center is made of cassowary bones and used to kill people. Spears left her with four cusps on the tip is used for fish, spear with a blunt riding - for lizards, and with a wide bamboo end - for wild boars.

(GEORGE STEINMETZ / CORBIS)

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By the end of the 1970's, when anthropologists began to study this tribe, Korowai do not know about the existence of other people apart from their tribe. In the photo: a man from the tribe of Korowai is a stone ax on a wood floor over a flooded area of the forest.

(GEORGE STEINMETZ / CORBIS)

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The tribe of cannibals, but anthropologists contend that after their presentation to the outside world, this practice stopped. Korowai eat the meat of wild boars, deer, sago and bananas.In the photo: a woman from the tribe of loaves processes bark sago palms in the amyloid food to accompany almost any meal.

(GEORGE STEINMETZ / CORBIS)

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Only a few representatives of the tribe can read and write. During the census, only 2,686 people were interviewed through an interpreter. They do not wear clothes and live in trees.

На фото: личинки жука дровосека.

Photo: beetle larvae Woodman.Trees felled sago for 4-6 weeks before the feast, and left to rot in a swamp, where they fill these larvae. At the appropriate stage of larval development (4-6 weeks) trees "reveal" a stone ax or a sharp spear. These beetles - a favorite dish, they are usually eaten as raw or roasted.

Это довольно сытная еда.

This is a pretty satisfying meal. In a world Korowai tribe, where the lack of protein, these beetles - one of several important sources of fat.

(GEORGE STEINMETZ / CORBIS)

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"Now that we know about them, their strength and life, that people will no longer be isolated. We will do everything that these people have access to education and medicine, like all other Indonesians ", - said the head of the Indonesian statistical agency. Photo: Man slazit with iron tree, knocking the nest of black ants, which serve him as bait for fish.

(GEORGE STEINMETZ / CORBIS)

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Leading the ritual sago stand in a circle and share with the guests (not pictured) humorous attacks before they enter the house, which will host a banquet.

(GEORGE STEINMETZ / CORBIS)