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contact patrol", bringing steel axeheads to an area where stone axeheads were the norm. Even south of the Lagaip, many Hewa families were first contacted by
Steadman in the late 1960s. He found that the typical family (which averaged seven people) lived in relative isolation from other families, with their nearest neighbors living from five minutes' walk up to half a mile away through dense jungle. After darkness envelops their isolated realm, the families often stay awake for hours, the men telling myths and stories around a fire, and the women, gathered around a separate fire in their section of the house, often interrupting with well-timed quips and jests as they create grass skirts or weave stringbags. Sometimes, historical tales are sung or chanted.
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They are one of the few tribes in the fringe highland area never to have practised cannibalism, perhaps because their belief associates cannibalism with dangerous sorcerers. It is not uncommon for women accused of witchcraft to be killed. The Hewa have been extensively studied by anthropologists Lyle
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naturally. Their language is not related to any neighboring culture as their culture is a Sepik Basin one, unlike that of the other Hela
Province (formerly Southern Highlands) tribes. They have some limited trade with those neighboring tribes, exchanging the Hewa's animal skins, spears and tree bark
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The Hewa were one of the last peoples in Papua New Guinea to come into contact with the outside world. Many Hewa people north of the Lagaip River were uncontacted until 1975, when the
Officer in Charge at Lake Kopiago braved arrow attacks and led what probably was Papua New Guinea's last "first
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In recent decades, change has come to the region. Many Hewa wear
Western clothes instead of the traditional grass skirts; though the majority still live in scattered households, some now live in villages and travel agencies fly tourists to newly constructed airstrips to visit them.
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River. They were one of the last peoples in Papua New Guinea to come into contact with the outside world. They number about 2,000 persons, and their rugged
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fiber for shells and boar tusks. They make paintings on flat sheets of bark but these paintings, done for magical purposes, are never traded or exhibited.
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241:by Thomas, page 87"
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239:Back to the Future
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257:2009-09-04
111:reforested
92:rainforest
88:Strickland
826:Wopkaimin
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530:Indonesia
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681:Chambri
676:Bilibil
666:Baining
578:Korowai
459:page 29
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741:Koteka
731:Kaluli
726:Iatmul
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