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THE DANIS Melanesians with
negroid features and dark brown skins. No one knows their origin. Danis
(in Indonesian termed: Lannys) are no longer cannibals; people eastwards
are (Soba, Ninia). Dani tribes practice a high degree of social organization,
a quite sophisticated from of agriculture, and an advanced engineering
skill in constructing rattan bridges and dwellings. They have a complicated
system of trading and bartering, importing Bird of Paradise feathers,
scere-bird plumes, cowrie shells, or the finest spear-wood from distant
villages. Their traditional home is the Baliem Valley deep in the highlands
of New Guinea. There are no seasons in the Baliem so the Danis spend most
of their lives working in the fields, always cleaning, draining, pruning
vines, weeding beds, and scooping up the rich soil to put on their gardens.
No clothing is worn except grass skirts and tubelike yellow gourds up
to % m long, hairnets, necklaces of cowrie shells, and armbands of pigs'
scrotums which they believe ward off ghosts. Danis don't believe in washing
but smear their bodies with a mixture of soot, pig grease, or red or white
clay to keep themselves warm in their often cold climate. In the chilly
mornings Dani men stand with their arms wrapped around their necks to
keep warm. The loincloths of other tribes and clothing of white men are
repugnant and rude to them. Dani men put ballpoint pens, drinking straws,
boar tusks, or pieces of tin cans through their noses. Through their ears
anything from cigarettes to diaper pins. On festive occasions land formerly
for battles), the men wear the most elaborate adornments such as headdresses
of cassowary whisks, white egret feathers, anklets of parrot feathers,
looking like they're going to take flight! Though it's being taught on
a small scale, Indonesian isn't widely spoken here and the population
is in large happily illiterate. They speak two dialects of one language,
both spoken with the speed of machinegun fire. Danis have the gentlest
handshake you'll ever experience, and appear fearless- their most striking
characteristic. Their strength is phenomenal. Watch one run through the
forest barefoot or walk 20 km with a man on his shoulders. Seven Javanese
men can't hold a Dani down on the ground.
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we must point out a very important distinction which the Balinese make between
two clearly separate groups of ancestors. The first of these groups consists
of the dead who are riot yet completely purified. This group is in turn subdivided
in pirata, those riot yet cremated, and pitara, those already cremated. The
former are still completely impure; the latter have been purified, but are still
considered as distinct, individual souls. The second group consists of the completely
purified ancestors who are considered as divine. Everything Bali Indonesia |
