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"Japanese people taste the best - whites are too salty!"
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:20 am
by bakubo
Check this out:
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-engli ... salty.html
Hmm, maybe that is why I was able to avoid getting eaten when I was there in 1995.
By the way, I am quite sure that the mummy in the photo in this article is the same one that I have 3 photos of in my West Papua New Guinea (Irian Jaya) gallery on my website:
http://www.bakubo.com
It was at a small village in the Baliem Valley and they said it was the 500 year old headman of the village.
Re: "Japanese people taste the best - whites are too salty!"
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:48 am
by bakubo
Re: "Japanese people taste the best - whites are too salty!"
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:49 am
by Dusty
Maybe that's why all my friends have made it back alive. I have friends who have lived and worked on both sides of the island in the villages, some since '57. One of my friends was instrumental in breaking the taboo on twins. On the PNG side, at least, the second twin was always killed at birth because it was '"evil". I believe it was that they thought it would share the same spirit in two bodies, or only one would have a spirit, something like that. He convinced the parents to let them both live for a why just to check it out, and after a while they decided there was no harm in having twins. It soon caught on to other villages, too.
Dusty
Re: "Japanese people taste the best - whites are too salty!"
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:21 pm
by bakubo
Thanks Dusty, interesting story.
Re: "Japanese people taste the best - whites are too salty!"
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 10:35 am
by bakubo
I didn't see any Japanese when I was there in 1995. Why? They knew to avoid the place or maybe all had already been eaten?
Here is my trip report:
Irian Jaya/West Papua New Guinea Trip Report
http://www.bakubo.com/Irian%20Jaya/ij-report.htm
And some B&W photos:
B&W West Papua New Guinea
http://www.bakubo.com/Galleries%202/B&W ... index.html
Re: "Japanese people taste the best - whites are too salty!"
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 9:50 am
by bakubo
Penis sheaths to be banned in Papua police crackdown?
Politicians in Indonesia have clashed with natives from Papua New Guinea - after declaring that their penis sheaths are offensive and pornographic.
Decorative 'koteka' have been worn by male inhabitants of New Guinea to cover their manhood for centuries.
The sheath is normally made from a dried out gourd made of a type of pumpkin, and is tied both around the scrotum and the chest to hold it in place.
http://www.bild.de/news/bild-english/pa ... .bild.html
Do their Moms warn them they could poke an eye out with those things?
Re: "Japanese people taste the best - whites are too salty!"
Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 1:01 am
by sury
Interesting news Henry. I wonder why they found "koteka" offensive and that too now?
Sury
