Indigenous Tribes That Survived the Times
| September 29, 2017
1. Korowai – Indonesia
Imagine there was a tribe who didn’t know about the existence of other human beings until the 1970s. That’s the case of the Korowai, who were first contacted in 1974 by the expeditioner Peter Van Arsdale. They live close to the border of Papua New Guinea and have a population of around 3,000 people.
They’re hunter-gatherers who live in tree houses and also in polygamous relationships. The Korowai did also practice cannibalism. They believed if a man died of unknown reasons (which were probably germs or viruses), a witch called khakhua was magically eating their insides, so they needed to eat the dead person to pay back in kind (a revenge based justice system).
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