Discovery Collection: The White Warrior #78

Discovery Collection

Piece #78 of 100

Portrait of a Dani leader in his picturesque war uniform. The Dani are an ethnic group found only in 1938 and living in the central highlands of West Papua (Indonesia). They remained until then technically still in the stone age. This warrior wears elbow height bracelets made of vegetable fiber. A beautiful pectoral composed of a mosaic of small shells hang around his neck. The intense red color of the teeth is caused by the habit to chewing the kernel of a typical fruit of the valley.

Published by: The Daily Mail