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  • Two Korowai men look down from their treehouse in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Korowai are a so-called treehouse people, building their homes high up in the trees.This particular house, which has been built some fifteen meters above ground, is occupied by two families.
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  • Three Kombai men stand outside a newly built treehouse some 25 meters up in a tall tree in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people, building their homes high up in the trees.
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  • A Kombai man with stone axe and bow and arrows in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees.
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  • Four Kombai women chop and pound the pith of a sago palm with a tool made of of a piece of bamboo in Papua, Indonesia, in order to extract the edible, starchy sago flour. September 2000. 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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  • A Kombai man with an edible insect in his mouth in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees.
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  • A Kombai woman carries a child on her hip during a hunting and foraging trip in the rainforest in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees. The woman also carries a string bag in which to put foodstuff or her child when it gets sleepy.
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  • A new treehouse built some 15 meters above ground in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The house belongs to a group of Kombai, one of the rainforest groups referred to as Treehouse People, since they buid their homes high in the trees.
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  • A group of Kombai men build a new treehouse some 25 meters up in a  tall tree in the rainforest of Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people, building their homes high up in the trees.
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  • A Kombai man with a dog´s tooth necklace watches three other men empty a dammed part of a creek in Papua, Indonesia, a fishing method allowing them to catch the fish living in the creek. September 2000.  The men use woody shafts of sago leafs as bailers. One such bailer is leaning against the tree to the left. A stone axe is lying on the ground beside it. On the other side of the creek three women are waiting. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees.
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  • A young Kombai boy with decorated bow and arrows in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees.
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  • A Kombai man with an edible river tortoise that he has caught in the rainforest in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees.
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  • A Kombai woman picks lice from the hair of a pregnant friend during a break in a hunting and gathering trip in the rainforest in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees. The woman wears a dog's tooth necklace and a rat tail headband.
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  • A Kombai man dress in a penis sheath made of the beak of a hornbill in Papua,  Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees.
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  • A group of Kombai cut up a sago palm that they have just felled in the rainforest in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The woody shafts of the leaves will be used for the washing of sago fibres. 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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  • Members of her husbands family dance for a young mother and present her with gifts when she emerges and shows hereself at the end of her first childbirth ritual. Palau, Micronesia, in February, 2005. For five days prior to this coming-out ceremony, the young mother has twice daily been given hot cleansing baths by a medicine woman. Every Palauan woman goes through a first childbirth ritual, a ngasech, two to three months after giving birth for the first time. The grass skirt which this woman is wearing is made of wool.
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  • The Dairam Kabur or the Becking River at Yofofla in Papua, Indonesia. On the eastern side of the river live the Kombai and on the western side the Korowai, both of whom are so-called treehouse people who build their homes high up in the trees.
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  • A medicine woman gives a young mother a hot medicinal bath during her ngasech, her first childbirth ceremony, in Palau, Micronesia. The mother has been anointed with coconut oil and yellow turmeric and the water is thrown at her with a cup made of a coconut shell. The purpose of the bath is to heal her skin, remove stretch marks and blemishes, and also to clean the inside of her private parts. Practically every Palauan woman goes through the ngasech ceremony, begun one to three months after she has given birth to her first child. The ceremony consists of hot baths, taken twice daily for five to ten days, depending on the clan of the new mother, and then a sweat bath on the day of her coming out ceremony when she is dressed up and shown to the family of the father of her child.
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  • On the final day of her ngasech, the traditional first childbirth ceremony, a young mother in Palau, Micronesia, is dressed up and anointed with cocnut oil and turmeric by a medicine woman. Practically every Palauan woman goes through the ngasech ceremony, begun one to three months after she has given birth to her first child. The ceremony consists of hot baths, taken twice daily for five to ten days, depending on the clan of the new mother, and then a sweat bath on the day of her coming out ceremony when she is dressed up and shown to the family of the father of her child. The purpose of the baths is to heal her skin, remove stretch marks and blemishes, and also to clean the inside of her private parts.
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  • A mother nurses her baby daughter during a break from one of the many hot baths required for her ngasech, the traditional ceremony that all women in Palau undergo after having given birth for the first time. Palau, Micronesia, in February, 2005.
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  • A medicine woman sorts the herbs for a steam bath that she will administer to a young mother who has given birth for the first time. Palau, Micronesia, in February, 2005. The bath is part of the ngasech, the traditional ceremony that all women in Palau undergo after having given birth for the first time.
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  • A mother nurses her baby daughter during a break from one of the many hot baths required for her ngasech, the traditional ceremony that all women in Palau undergo after having given birth for the first time. Palau, Micronesia, in February, 2005.
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  • Two Kombai men sit on the veranda of their treehouse in Papua, Indonesia. September 2000. The Kombai are a so-called treehouse people, building their homes high up in the trees.
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