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The Dani tribe lives around Wamena and is therefore most visited. The men are for the most part naked, only their penis is covered by a gourd. They are adorned with colored feathers of rare birds, shells, pig’s teeth, which are fixed by a hole in the nose, and dyed pig fat, which they apply to their upper bodies and the face. Women wear skirts that consist of dried grass before marriage and after marriage from woven textiles. The Indonesian government wanted to ban the wearing of the penis gourd, but could not enforce it.
A Dani’s tribe man poses for a portrait in full decorative attire including boar tusks in his nose and a flamboyant headdress. Their mostly naked bodies glistening with pig fat used for warmth and styling hair. Using the fat of pigs, they fashion their hair into a variety of styles, many resembling cornrows, dreadlocks and twists.
