CANNIBALS!! See This Place In Indonesia Where They Eat Human Beings, They Do It To Scare Other Tribes

If you are interested in weird tribes, how about cannibal tribes? A major tribal group in Papua, Indonesia who lives to the east of the Baliem Valley in the Papuan highlands, the word Yali does not refer to the tribe or its cultural identity; it just means the people from the east.

A significant element that helped the Yali maintain their tribal lifestyle is that their lands are largely isolated by challenging geography. Their villages are only accessible by walking through rough terrains for several hours.

They had no contact whatsoever with the outside world until the 1960s and are still living in a somewhat of a sovereign region under the control of Indonesia.

Most people who have heard of Yali only heard that they are cannibals. However, cannibalism was practiced as a way to scare other tribes. Yali is mostly vegetarians, they only eat pigs in celebration. But still, in the old days, they would attack their enemy tribes and take away prisoners.

The prisoners would then be chopped and eaten in festivities. The bones of those prisoners would later be ground and mixed with dust and thrown into the valley of the enemy tribe to terrify them. Yali is major tribal groups in Papua, Indonesia, and live to the east of the Baliem Valley in the Papuan highlands.

The Dani word for “lands of the east” is “yali”, from where the Yali took it, without it being a self-identification for their tribe. The settlement territory of the Yali lies between the rivers Ubahak to the East and Sibi, Yahulie, and Podeng to the West.

Their major towns are Angguruk and Kosarek, which are isolated by challenging geography. The major access to their territory is by air. The villages are only accessible by walking for several hours. Their territory is known collectively as Yalimo.

The Yali speaks a language that is related to that of the Dani, although it has significant differences. The language is in the Ngalik-Nduga subfamily. Today the Yali are of the Christian religion, mainly Protestant. Until the 1970s there were reports of cannibalism.

The Christian missionaries stopped several feuds between villages, old war rituals and ancestor cult were forgotten. The Yali live in villages with roundhouses on poles, where houses for women and men separate the sexes.

Water for drinking, we strictly separate domestic use and wastewater. The Yali are of a rather small stature (partially smaller than 150 cm). Traditionally the men are only clothed with a penis sheath (koteka) and rattan rings around the waist.

Their heads are occasionally covered with hairnets, which have a pointed end at the neck. The women-only wear a skirt made of reed. However, T-shirts and trousers or skirts and blouses are becoming more common. The Yali use sweet potatoes and taro as their staple foods, which are grown using shifting cultivation.

Other food sources are hunting and gathering. For festivities such as weddings pigs are slaughtered, which are only being kept extensively. Fruits are not part of the common diet.