we've got the piggy right here we're
gonna go meet the chief do you think the
chief is gonna like
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West Papua is home to over 300 different
tribes including some still uncontacted
people who come to pick up what do I do
- I shake his hand in Papua Central
Highlands one tribe still lives today as
they did hundreds of years ago and
they're known as the Dany people today
I'm on a mission to learn more about one
of the most unique cultures on earth all
right we're still working it out I'll
see how they live how many wives do you
have
and I'll experience how they eat many
people are worth killing but alone
taking on everything from uncanny local
fruit is show me how it's done to a food
ritual few outsiders have witnessed
before putting on some ferns between the
Robster it's gonna kind of cook like an
oven
let's get started today we have traveled
from Jaipur here to wa minna we're about
to meet the Dani tribe but first we have
to pick up a gift it's important if you
ever go to a dinner party you bring a
snack a glass of wine or like today a
life piggy
so the pics is really really valuable
it's the wealth of the doneghy tribes
when you have a pig you can holding the
lens you can marry more woman so if I'm
part of the Jenny culture I want to
marry a woman I need to kind of give a
dowry of pigs right you must give more
or less like 10 to 20 pigs for one woman
what do you think that would be in USD
you can imagine one pixel almost to a
2.5 hundred US dollars Wow but all
around this market they've got pigs
everywhere and everybody's trying to
sell their pig and we're looking for the
right one oh right here hello I don't
know I just came to pick a hard look
like I know what I'm looking for it
looks good it's a pig how long have you
had this one this morning she just
brought from the village nice not bad
he's over like almost $120 looks like
this is the best price we're gonna get
time to wrap piggy up and deliver him as
a gift to the Dani tribe cheap
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we have just arrived here at the village
we've got the piggy right here before we
meet the chief is there anything I
should know about the people here the
valley people our wedding the penis
corpse
the Danny people where very little
covering for men it's simply a gourd
snuggly lodging their nether regions
it's a traditional clothes for the Danny
people we call a cot eka just wearing
the penis core so they doesn't need
laundry that's nice I was gonna meet him
the chief and his closest counsel come
to the edge of the village to meet us
weather will actually be welcomed
remains to be seen and other people they
always say what Walkmans hi nice to meet
you welcome to my village my to my
country everything so it means culture
when they accept you I feel very welcome
thank you so much for having us here
it's a huge honor for me and you speak
English I'm sorry what a little bit of
English well it's pretty good
this is Yali turns out I'm definitely
not the first one to drop by his village
he's the chief of this Dani tribe
leading a village of 170 people how many
wives do you have
you know it's I have fun fine yeah it's
pretty good yeah do you feel bad ever
like four people maybe don't have a wise
cuz you got all the wives Robyn no
problem yeah not for you
yeah what is a penis Gord work do you
have to make your own penis Gord can you
buy it nearby the penis car is they
planned it it's just the fruits they can
make it dry and then they were it um I
want a penis cord that's kind of what
I'm getting into
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am I the first person asked for that yes
yes yeah but is it use I don't want to
use too I need a new one tomorrow
Oh certain thank you wha-wha-wha
wha-wha-wha-wha okay Wow Wow
do you want to come into wha what's
happening guys I'm in a fever dream it's
awesome Wow okay damn it you're a good
dancer so right now we've got some gifts
and we're gonna go meet the rest of the
tribe and I think there's gonna be a
greeting a special greeting let's find
out
okay what's happening
did you see that why do you food huh
okay it's pretending to kill me Wow wah
wah wah wah wah wah wah wah hug we
hugged oh oh you know what sometimes
brothers fight but we got a squat yeah
wah wah okay
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this is the Danny welcoming ceremony
deep in the highlands of West Papua
lives one of the world's most isolated
tribes one can't help but to think that
this is how people may have lived
centuries ago no plastic
no steel ingenious tools engineering and
techniques that utilize only what can be
found in nearby jungles and the only
required piece of clothing is made from
a gourd chief of preparing a penis core
based on your size huh a bit I don't
let's take a look let's take a look is
this supposed to be a super loose fit
okay so it's not supposed to be tight
cool then I think this will work for me
today I'll witness a rare village feast
pot-bellied pig sweet potatoes and pop
Wars alien looking red fruit what's most
remarkable is the way they cooked their
food cleverly combining natural elements
to create an earth oven fire is ready
rocks are heating up time to come
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around here
pigs our currency and pigs are status
sacrificing a pig for a meal is only
reserved for important social locations
and rituals the slaughtering of the
animal is still done today as it's been
done for generations but do you know why
they don't just cut the neck
many people always kill it by Aaron well
one is it good to the heart is that more
respectful yes
the chief removes and saves the ears and
tail as a token and reminder kept in the
village home that only the
highest-ranking men may and don't know
yes that's the secrets of keeping this
and women never entering the Woodman
house how many do you have really keep
it secretly if you won't even tell me
I'm kind of a man no it's see you came
up it's like
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the woman's start building the earth of
it by layering straw and leaves and a
shallow pit the men used bamboo knives
to clean the pig and prepare for
roasting and the red fruit guy prepares
the red fruit here we have that insane
red fruit that we bought yesterday where
do you even get this it looks like a
fruit from Avatar and the first step is
to split it open super of course tough
skin that he's got to use this like
thick steel blade to get through crack
it open I get a little slap on guys
check this out this guy's got a joint
some kind of tobacco rolled from with a
leaf can I
oh yeah a little too bad go bus I'm not
really a smoker okay here you go it's
kind of mild so now we're taking out the
center piece do you eat this eat know
this okay my sign language tells me he
doesn't eat it but what do I know maybe
they do maybe they don't
we're gonna find out right now we're
about to put the pig in an earth oven
here they've heated up all these rocks
are blazing hot they've absorbed all the
heat from the fire and they're using
these giant like wooden tweezers to move
the rocks to this earth oven over here
and then throw the pig and everything
else inside oh it's not easy as it looks
Oh actually it's not that hard but I got
a tiny-ass rock you can see there's a
pit already forming with all these rocks
so now they're putting on some ferns
even more foliage between the rocks I
think so there's not such direct heat so
indica putting in some potato these are
sweet potatoes oh there's a little bit
of everything
what and then they put even more leaves
on top of all these sweet potatoes and
more rocks they need my help it's the
whole layered oven starts with foliage
rocks sweet potatoes foliage rocks and
then the pig on top
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this is our final product right here the
earth oven
it looks amazing it looks beautiful I've
never seen anything like this I'm told
we just need two hours for it to cook in
here hopefully everything inside is
cooked but I'm pretty sure they know
what they're doing you by year the
modern world creeps closer to the once
uncontacted Danny people but evidence of
their early culture can still be seen
everywhere
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women in the tribe who used to remove
sections of their fingers each time a
loved one died a village elder using
fresh pig intestine to cushion his nose
bone and of course the practice of using
all natural tools to cook up a feast for
an entire village right now they're
taking all the stones off apparently
this is the job of the women and they're
just using a stick to kind of pull out
all the foliage or grabbing the rocks
throwing them to the side and the pig is
right here looks like it's probably
cooked
oh yeah here's a piggy oh look at this
this is the whole pig right here
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now in this next layer is the red fruit
Wow that is beautiful okay there's no
oven mitts
what are you eating hmm what is this
this really so they're eating this be
sure they look like birds I see them
showing the fur but it tastes almost
inedible it is so hard still
the women continue unpacking the oven
retrieving steaming hot sweet potatoes
while the men section the pig the big
pieces of meat are divided up by the
cheese yes he just chopped this whole
pig in half with a bamboo knife Wow eat
everybody yes baby and boy everybody and
me yes well you oh thank you
though jobs are divided everyone eats
kids are the first to get a taste a few
elders disperse sections of the pig
ensuring everyone gets their fill
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you can see like this thick-skinned fat
right here oh thank you Wow
from the hind leg huge piece of pork
some fat
oh it's really good Oh hot hot hot hot
yeah very hot oh wow this looks so good
oh thank you wow these guys are so kind
of dated whoa
I want to share with some other people
too hmm here there's a huge piece of
skin thick fat it's like rubbery it
looked like a wild boar this pig do you
eat this eat this the skin let's try it
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that's actually pretty good thick skin
all that fat inside it just bubbles and
juices up I'm telling you man piggies do
one animal you can get away with like no
salt no seasoning just roast it up and
it's still going to be good it's like a
natural cooking vessel
this is a sweet potato Wow look how soft
it got my gosh it's been cooking up
steaming underground super hot still mmm
is really good I said an airplane we're
so far out how could it be airplanes out
here as with many of life's best dining
experiences the cooking is intense and
laborious but the eating is over within
a matter of minutes this is going to be
our dessert for today although I don't
know how to thirty it actually tastes me
they've stripped these kind of red
kernels away from the core of the
vegetable and then they've added water
and now she's gonna kind of massage and
press it can I ask where do you get like
a purple Tupperware container around
here you guys have a Walmart so this is
what we want right here this kind of red
oil they call it look at this it's
become like a red sauce or paste and the
smell is kind of earthy and chalky all
yet to try not to drop the seeds in
though oh that's harder than it looks
hahahaha what chief whoa that's out of
this world it is not sweet at all very
unique flavor a little bitter a little
tart it's like a wood varnish or
something oh thank you so this is
essentially like a very intensive dip
that they make and this is a purpose
right here it becomes a sauce a gravy or
an oil whatever you want to call it that
they're gonna put on the sweet potato
and then you just eat it like this no no
you you I have some
chief Yali is one of the most
fascinating and memorable people I've
met in my travels he is the bridge
between traditional dany culture and a
culture that's moving quickly into the
future increasingly interacting with and
becoming dependent on the outside world
but more than honored to have had the
privilege of interrupting his life for
an afternoon and I can't wait to try out
my new outfit do I put this here like
this this is the right way help me
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