Dani's Animism
I'm not an anthropology student myself, but my childhood love of watching Indiana Jones movies made me determined to one day meet a tribe in the Amazon interior. While trekking in Kurima, I encountered a group of Yali people. Much exploration has been done in the remote highlands of Papua. Then, an American investigator named Richard Archbold, a member of his team, was the first foreigner to make contact with the indigenous people, who had never had contact with another country before. This tribe, who live at the peak of the Jayawijaya mountains, is indeed very closed to new civilizations. The materials used include ironwood for the central support pillars of the Honai house, jagat, rope, reeds, peeled planks, baseboards, and so on. Before the corpse freezes for three hours, they tie it in a squatting position to a prepared piece of wood. This ceremony doesn't take place every year, but every four or five years, so it's no surprise that the Hubula tribe performs it with suc...