Papua/Irian Jaya, known before 1973 as Irian Barat or West Papua, comprises the west half of the island of New Guinea - the Worlds second largest island after Greenland.
It is Indonesia's largest, most remote, and least populated province. Large areas have yet to be explored, and this is one of the few parts of the worlds where maps can still legitimately be marked "Here be Dragon".
Papua as we called present day is eastern island of Indonesia. Papua comprises the western half of the huge island of New Guinea situated just northern tip of Australia. The eastern part of the island is belongs to Papua New Guinea. . Almost half of Papua province is hilly or mountains and about ten Major peaks reach over 4.000 meters and tallest is Carstenz peaks with 5.050 meters from the sea level.
Papua stretches 1.200 kilometers from east to west and it is Indonesia is largest province, covering 160,150 square miles. It is also the second largest island on earth after green land. Papua is a last frontier for travel among unique cultures that have had a little influenced by western people.
The indigenous people of Papua are Melanesians with black skins and curly hair. They generally have a root crop subsistence agriculture based on sweet potatoes and taro, while people in the lowlands and swamps obtain their starch from sago palm which gives and extremely generous yield for remarkably little effort. While many other people of the world were still hunter and gatherers, Papua people had begun to garden. After fairly recently, many of the local people live within simple stone age culture wearing little clothing and decorating their bodies with paintings, shells, pig tusks, feathers and skins.
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About Papua
Papua/Irian Jaya, known before 1973 as Irian Barat or West Papua, comprises the west half of the island of New Guinea - the Worlds second largest island after Greenland. [Read | Chat | Guest Book | Testimony]
DANI PEOPLE IN THE HIGHLAND
Baliem Valley and the Dani tribe waited a long time to be discovered. Papuan highland belongs to one the most recently explored New Guinea areas. The tall mountains in west Papua (Irian Jaya) were generally considered as uninhabited. No sooner than 1398 did the pilot Richard Archbold notice that there was [Read | Chat | Guest Book | Testimony]
Papua Yali tribe story of cannibalism
Yali tribe is most likely the smallest of Papuan nations. I wrote likely because I am convinced that not all the nations living in New Guinea (including Irian Jaya), have yet been discovered [Read | Chat | Guest Book | Testimony]
Korowai batu tree people
Korowai Batu tree people one of the least civilized tribes on Papua. Men wear shells of different nuts and hard seeds on their penises. Women walk half-naked, their genitals covered only with grass skirts. They decorate themselves with dog and pig teeth and with tusks of wild boars. They live in houses built in tree-tops. [Read | Chat | Guest Book | Testimony]
Asmat People
They live on small islands in mangrove vegetation nearby the sea, on the south side of the western part of the New Guinea Island. The Asmat build long houses, where they live together. Every family has its own reserved fireplace. In the long house about six or even ten of the group members live [Read | Chat | Guest Book | Testimony]
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