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Kombai men felling sago palm with stone axes in Papua, Indonesia

Two Kombai men uses stone axes to cut down a sago palm in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The man in the foreground, who wears a penios sheath made of the beak of a hornbill, tightens the rattan lashings of his axe. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees, and sago is one of their staple foods.

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Image Size: 5553x3694 / 13.6MB; Adults Horizontal Indonesia Irian Jaya Islands Kombai Males Melanesia Men New Guinea Oceania Papua Papuan Southeast Asia Treehouse People Tribespeople bare-breasted bare-chested cultural and ethnic dress cutting ethnic clothing food plants harvesting hornbill hunter-gatherer indigenous people penis sheath penis-sheath rain forest rainforest rattan sago palms standing stone axe stone-axe tree trunk two persons wearing working
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Two Kombai men uses stone axes to cut down a sago palm in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The man in the foreground, who wears a penios sheath made of the beak of a hornbill, tightens the rattan lashings of his axe. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees, and sago is one of their staple foods.