Papua, Indonesia.
The Korowai Tribe number about 3,000.
Nomadic tree-dwellers living in the forest canopy at heights of up to 50m above the forest floor.
Living off forest animals and plants, hunter foragers, they also cultivate some crops.
The Korowai have their own language.Their only clothes, when they wear any, banana leaves.
Until 1970 they believed that they were the only people on Earth having never met anyone outside of their tribe.
Now included for the first time in Papua's census they have been given the status of 'tree-dwellers'.
They are believed to be the first people anywhere in the world to be given this official status.
catalogued
like some new species
forest songs
Paul Conneally
The Korowai Tribe number about 3,000.
Nomadic tree-dwellers living in the forest canopy at heights of up to 50m above the forest floor.
Living off forest animals and plants, hunter foragers, they also cultivate some crops.
The Korowai have their own language.Their only clothes, when they wear any, banana leaves.
Until 1970 they believed that they were the only people on Earth having never met anyone outside of their tribe.
Now included for the first time in Papua's census they have been given the status of 'tree-dwellers'.
They are believed to be the first people anywhere in the world to be given this official status.
catalogued
like some new species
forest songs
Paul Conneally
