You have to get a local guide to comunicate with Dani people. I hadone – John speaking english. He took money advance and escaped home on the first evening. Before we visited first village – Sumpaima. Fascinating!
Do you remember my travel to PNG? Dani people living here do not use such a wigs like their brothers – the men wear penis sheath made of cultivated gourd… Usually nothing else. I had a lot of fun. Men and women sleep apart in circular tatched houses – there is 5-6 of them in the fenced family campound.
A man may have as many wives as he can afford. For the new one he must offer to the girl’s family 12 pigs or more. In the old good times ( whites arrived to the valley in 1950-ties) 5 or 6 was enough… Everything is more expensive now!
I sleep in the village – sweet potatoes for dinner and breakfast!
