Angu people
The Angu, also called Kukukuku (pronounced "cookah-cookah") by neighbouring tribes, is a small and previously violent tribe living mainly in the high, mountainous region of south-western Morobe, a province of Papua New Guinea. Even though they are a short people, often less than 5 foot, they were once feared for their violent raids on more peaceful villages living in lower valleys.[1]
Despite the high altitude and cold climate of their homeland, the Angu only wore limited clothing, including grass skirts, with a piece similar to a sporran, and cloaks made from beaten bark, called mals.[1]
They are also known to Westerners for practicing a sexual ritual involving pre-adolescent boys acting as courtesans for male tribal elders.[2][3]
An account of some of the first contact between the Angu and westerners is describe vividly by J. K. McCarthy in his book Patrol into Yesterday: My New Guinea Years.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Lightbody, Mark; Wheeler, Tony (1985). Papua New Guinea: a travel survival guide (3 ed.). Lonely Planet. pp. 89–90. ISBN 0-908086-59-8.
- ^ "The Naked Face". Articles from the New Yorker. Gladwell.com. 2002-08-05. http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_08_05_a_face.htm.
- ^ Pascale Bonnemere. Women as Unseen Characters - Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea. ISBN 0812237897. http://books.google.pt/books?id=t8Yl0IGg-M4C&pg=PP1.
[edit] External links
- A New Venture into the Unknown, booklet produced by the Melanesian Mission on their proposed mission to the Kukukuku people of New Guinea, 1935.
- "Kukukuku, the Angu people, Papua New Guinea" by Carolyn Leigh, Art-Pacific, August 19, 2002, retrieved December 28th, 2005
 |
This Papua New Guinea-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 |
This article related to an ethnic group is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
