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The Dani tribe lives around Wamena and is therefore most visited. The men are for the most part naked, only their penis is covered by a gourd. They are adorned with colored feathers of rare birds, shells, pig’s teeth, which are fixed by a hole in the nose, and dyed pig fat, which they apply to their upper bodies and the face. Women wear skirts that consist of dried grass before marriage and after marriage from woven textiles. The Indonesian government wanted to ban the wearing of the penis gourd, but could not enforce it.










