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In late-October 2024, a post on Facebook highlighted an indigenous tribe on the island of New Guinea, in which the tribespeople apparently practice the custom of cutting off a portion of their fingers ...

Traveler TJ Korst will present “Koteka Quest -- Trekking the Baliem Valley,” in search of vestiges of kotekas, tribally distinctive coverings for male genitals, in the Papua area of Indonesia; and ...

The female participants of the Baliem Valley Cultural Festival are getting ready for their performance in the event,at Wamena, Papua, Indonesia, August 7, 2014. Image: Agung Parameswara/Getty Images ...

The "car wash" in the remote Baliem Valley of Indonesia's Papua region is not as innocent as it seems at first glance, and just decades ago anything like it would have been inconceivable. A fertile ...

A view of the Baliem valley in Jayawijaya mountains, Wamena, Papua. This picture is a part of the 'Dani the Highlander, Manusia Pegunungan' book by Evi Aryati Arbay. TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - As many as ...

10 July 1976: Missionaries will be the only people with any practical expertise on dealing with disaster on this scale The major earthquake reported to have killed 9,000 people in the Baliem Valley ...

In May of 1945 a Douglass C-47 Skytrain known as the Gremlin Special crashed into a mountain side of the Baliem Valley during a military sightseeing mission, leaving the passengers at the mercy of a ...