Kombai Women Collecting Sago

These girls are Berna & Mapi, Kombai girls living in the heart of West Papua. They still live a stone-age life as their ancestors did thousands of years ago. Claypot and metal are unknown to the Kombai.
Every 3 or 4 days, they pound a sago tree to get the pulp and extract it by the river to get the flour. They can get 2 big lumps of flour that last their family for 2 to 3 days.

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Travel & Events

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• Kombai
• West
• Papua
• Indonesia
• Stone-age
• Missionary
• Christian
• Travel

[taeefnajib]

We should respect these hard working women! 

[JoeSTARGAZER]

@taeefnajib absolutely... the are fantastic and very kind...and very hard working too... very dignified

[PANDUSURESH95]

due to lack of education ,they are facing this problem..........

any one try to educate them

[JoeSTARGAZER]

@PANDUSURESH95 They are educated in their own way. Just because they don't live life like us doesn't make them less civilized than we are

[Cardan011]

if some major cataclysm hits the earth and we lose our electricity and etc....only people that would have probably no problems surviving would be like these

[JoeSTARGAZER]

@Cardan011 Indeed



[ethnografica]

magnificent people and very nice singing

[kahunahawaii]

I wish our women would work like that instead of just telling the men what to do

[JoeSTARGAZER]

@jonnykook This is in Boven Digoel district of West Papua, Indonesia. It's the Kombai Tribe.

[micahgardner]

i love how they're singing while they work.

[jonnykook]

could you please tell me where is West Papua Located? I thought these ladies were African Pigmies from the central forest

[jonnykook]

Could please tell me exactly where West Papua is located? Because these people look like African pygmies to me. Thank you.

[jonnykook]

Could please tell me exactly where West Papua is located? Because these people look like African pygmies to me. Thank you

[MrCrunchybizzle]

pfft as if people in the so called civilized world don't do work. join a framing crew. people are supposed to do work. I'd rather process wild plants for a few hours to feed myself for three days, than work 9-5. "OMG THAT LOOKS SO HARD!" this is what your fat bodies were designed to do, you're not doing it, therefore you have no power over your existence and a FAT BODY. domesticated humans...