Crafts of Wamena

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Tourism preserves and develops Dani carfts and also serves to introduce a cash economy to the people. Danis are enthusiastic craftsmen, designers of tools and dwellings, also of shells, feathers and other organic articles for self-adornment and for sale. Men in this society are the creators, women are the producers. Powerful warriors who killed in battle sit for hours making skirts or delicate orchid fibre necklaces for their wives. Bone awls and needles are used for weaving. Spiders are harvested in the forest, their elaborate webs hung around the throat in unique woven patterns (rarely found). Purchase stone axe blades (kapak) in Wamena for Rp500-2000, the price depending upon the size and the labor involved in making it. Black stone is the hardest and considered the finest. Although these axes cost up to Rp75,000 on Java, they are much too expensive in the Wamena market. Wait instead for Dani men to approach you, which they do often. Look for sekan (or tetngen), thin rattan handwoven bracelets that take 1-2 hours to make and cost Rp100 in outlying villages. Noken (bark string bags) are cheapest (Rp500) at the village of Wesa Put right behind the airport in the small workshop on the right just before the village. Ask for Daniel. The only way to make sure that you're buying a true bark string bag is to buy a grimy sweat-soaked one from a passing Dani woman. At Negara Hotel Restoran John S. Wolff sells handicrafts and implements such as tomohawks, axes, bows and arrows, hats, grass skirts (yungal or yokel) and noken. If you go out to the villages these same articles are considerably cheaper. To send artifacts back from Wamena do it through MAF or the Protestant air service. They get your stuff back safely to Australia by air freight

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