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For decades, a rare disease crawled across Papua New Guinea. When scientists realized what was behind kuru, it caught everyone by surprise. But similar diseases can still be transmitted...
The Angu or Änga people, also called Kukukuku (pronounced "cookah-cookah"), are a small group speaking a number of related languages [1] and living mainly in the high, mountainous region of south-western Morobe, a province of Papua New Guinea.
The Korowai, also called the Kolufo, live in southeastern Papua in the Indonesian provinces of South Papua and Highland Papua. Their tribal area is split by the borders of Boven Digoel Regency , Mappi Regency , Asmat Regency , and Yahukimo Regency .
An estimated 4,000 Korowai tribespeople live in the jungles of southeastern Papua, the Indonesian province that makes up the western half of the island of New Guinea. Unlike most civilizations — who inhabit shelters on the ground — the Korowai are known for building treehouses (called khaim) that tower up to 140 feet above the jungle floor.
The Korowai Tribe are a fascinating tribe only recently discovered in Papua New Guinea. Up until the 1970s, there had been no previous recorded contact between them and the western world. In fact, scientists believe the tribe may not have ever realised anyone else even existed other than themselves.
When Drew Binksy travelled across the world to Papua New Guinea alone to face a "cannibal tribe," he wasn't sure what to expect - but he soon found that he had nothing to worry about -...
For days I've been slogging through a rain-soaked jungle in Indonesian New Guinea, on a quest to visit members of the Korowai tribe, among the last people on earth to practice cannibalism.