Not only famous for its rich flora and fauna, Papua has indigenous tribes that have an interesting and unique life. One of them is the original rural tribe of papua who live and live in tree houses as high as 50 meters, known as Korowai Tribe.
Korowai tribe inhabit Kaibar region, Mappi Regency, Papua. The Korowai tribe was only discovered by Dutch missionaries in 1974. Previously, they really did not know anyone outside their group. Unlike other tribes who built Honai homes as shelters, they live in tree houses.
Korowai tribe lived in tree houses as high as 15 to 50 meters. They build houses on trees to avoid wild animals and evil spirits. The korowai tribe believe that, the higher their house, the farther away from the disturbance of evil spirits.
The materials used to make tree houses come from forests and swamps around them, such as wood, rattan, roots and tree branches. The Korowai tribal tree house is very natural. All materials are made of nature, the skeleton is made of small wooden stems and the floor is covered in bark. Walls and roofs use bark or woven sagu leaves. To bind, all use the rope. All home-making process is done by hand. The only metal item in existence is a machete or ax used to hunt.
In 2011, the Korowai tribe once appeared in the BBC Human Planet documentary. In the film, Korowai tribe shows how they make tree houses. Even one of their ambitious efforts shows by building a tree house as high as 114 meters within 2 weeks!
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I remember seeing some of the Human Planet documentary, it was a very interesting. Good post!
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