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If you’re interested in strange tribes, what about cannibal tribes? A major tribal group in Papua, Indonesia, living east of the Balim Valley in the Papua Highlands, the word Yali does not refer to a tribe or its cultural identity; it simply refers to people from the East.
An important factor that helped the Yaris maintain their tribal way of life was that their lands were largely separated by challenging geographies. Their village can only be reached by walking through rough terrain for a few hours.
They had no contact with the outside world until the 1960s and still live in a sovereign area under Indonesian control.
Most people who have heard of Yali have only heard of them as cannibals. However, cannibalism was used as a way to scare other tribes. Yali is mostly vegetarian and they only eat pigs to celebrate. However, in the past, they would still attack enemy tribes and take captives.
The prisoners would then be chopped up and eaten during the festivities. The bones of those captives were later ground, mixed with dust, and thrown into the valleys of the enemy tribes to terrorize them. The Yali are the main tribal group in Papua, Indonesia, living in the eastern part of the Balim Valley in the Papua Highlands.
“Land of the East” in Dani means “yali”, from the Yali people, but this is not their tribe’s self-identification. The settlement of the Yari is located between the Ubahaq River in the east and the Sibe, Yahuray and Boden Rivers in the west.
Their main towns are Angguruk and Kosarek, which are separated by challenging geographies. The main route of entry into its territory is by air. These villages can only be reached by walking for a few hours. Their territories are collectively known as Yarimo.
The language spoken by Yali is related to that of Dani, although they are quite different. The language belongs to the Ngalik-Nduga subfamily. The Yaris today are Christian, mainly Protestant. There were no reports of cannibalism until the 1970s.
Several hatreds between villages were stopped by Christian missionaries, and ancient war rituals and ancestor worship were forgotten. The Yaris lived in the village, with round houses on poles, separate houses for men and women.
For drinking water, we strictly distinguish between domestic water and wastewater. Yali is quite short in stature (some less than 150 cm). Traditionally, men only wore condoms (koteka) and rattan rings around the waist.
Their heads are occasionally covered with hairnets that end at their necks. Women only wear skirts made of reeds. However, T-shirts and pants or skirts and shirts are becoming more common. The Yaris eat sweet potatoes and taro as staple foods, and they use crop rotation.
Other food sources are hunting and gathering. For celebrations such as weddings, pigs are slaughtered, and these pigs are only widely raised. Fruit is not part of the normal diet.
In a patriarchal society, men build houses and hunt while women grow and gather food.
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