IRIAN JAYA – PAPUA the LOST PARADISE OF SHANGRI - LA
(Formerly Irian Jaya)

Irian Jaya now days is known as West Papua and East Papua,undoubtedly ranks as the most isolated and primitive region among the Indonesian Archipelago. The native inhabitants of Papua are generally divided into two distinet subgroup which is the coastal Austronesians and the Highland Papuas, both are similar in appearance with dark skinned, woolly haired and heavily bearded with facial features similar to the Australians aborigin. The material culture practised by these tribes depends very much on their inviroment like the Asmat Tribes are skilled woodcarvers known for their strikingly graphic shields , masks , ancestor totems and war canoes. The highland Dani Tribes of the great Balliem valley are more adept cultivators who have probably been terracing and irrigating their well manicured fields and raising domestic pigs for centuries and they in turn are quite distinct from numerus neighbouring tribes who rely on a trade in arrowheads,cowry shells, animal skinn, pig teeth or Bird of Paradise feathers. The temperature at the highland is very cold sometimes reach about 5C but the Dani people wear virtually no clothing,girls wear reedskirts,marriage women wrap themselves with a braided cord and man sport only long tubular penis,sheaths made of dried yellow gourds locally called `` koteka``. Armbands and throat patches fashioned from pigs scrotums , barkcloth or matted spider webs , ward off evil spirit.

Explore the Lost Paradise of  the the Last Frontier Island.

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