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Becoming a Man

  • The Huli tribe has one of the most unique processes in which a boy becomes a man
  • Boys first live with their mother until they are 8
  • They then live with their father to learn to become men
  • At 15, they go to a special bachelor school where they are taught the rituals and biological processes of becoming a man
  • during this time any contact with woman (including their mother) is forbidden

The Huli Tribe: Papua New Guinea

By: Mary O'Melia

Threats to the Huli Tribe

  • Since agriculture is such a big part of their food supply, flooding and crop damage is a great threat
  • Their rainforest being cut down for wood for various big companies is also a danger which causes:
  • less wild animals for them to hunt
  • less grass used to build their shelter
  • Reasons why to preserve the New Guinea rainforest the Huli tribe inhabits

Headdresses and Wigs

  • Towards the end of the boy's transition, his hair is cut and stitched into a traditional wig by the village wig master
  • the wig is decorated with parrot feathers, dyes made from charcoal, red clay and pig fat

The Importance of Hair

  • A boy's ability to grow his hair is a very important for his transition into a man
  • During their bachelor schooling, their hair is sprinkled three times a day in order for it to grow quickly
  • it is sprinkled with holy water combined with magic and spells
  • As the hair grows it is shaped by bamboo bands

Cannot Forgive and Forget

  • Regional authorities once held a peace ceremony to end a huge dispute
  • started with a stray pig eating another villagers crops
  • led to two warriors killing each other with spears
  • eventually leading to one village slaughtering another
  • The Huli also use sacred yellow clay (ambua) as body decoration and when combined with bright red clay as a way to intimidate rival groups

Violent Lifestyle

  • The Huli choose a life of vengeance and warfare rather than peace and settlement
  • Have a "payback" system
  • where the punishment is worse than the original wrongdoing
  • Most Huli wars originate from a personal dispute between individuals

Food/Shelter

cuscus

manioc

  • Gardening and hunting are the most important things to the Huli tribe
  • Diet consists of yams, manioc, village raised pigs, wild cassowary, tree kangaroos, and cuscus
  • Live in round grass huts with fences around them to keep their pigs
  • To stay warm during cold mountainous weather, villagers cover their bodies with pig-fat grease and ash

Who are the Huli?

Huli Culture and Tradition

  • The Huli tribe uses pigs as their form of wealth and currency
  • also a common exchange used for a bride's dowry

Clothing

  • Women wear grass skirts
  • Men wear a koteka (garment worn to cover groin), an apron around their waist going past the knees, and ceremonial headdresses
  • They live in the Tari Basin of Papua New Guinea
  • one of the largest cultural groups in the area
  • population is around 90,000 people

Language

  • primarily speak "Huli" and Tok Pisin
  • some words in Huli include "Ha'a, agua pe?"
  • Ha'a: a general greeting
  • agua pe? : an informal "how are you"
  • Tok Pisin is a combination between English, German and indigenous Melanesian languages
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