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Abandoned Korowai treehouse, West Papua, Indonesia
Korowai hunters on the edge of a treehouse clearing, West Papua, Indonesia
Domaleh foraging for breadfruit, West Papua, Indonesia
Sowayen descending after dislodging ant nest for fishbait, West Papua, Indonesia
Head of a Kombai clan stands before his tree houses
Woman carrying a hunting dog up a notched pole to her family tree house
Starting a fire on the floor of a Korowai tree house with tinder and a strip of rattan
Lumbareh making an arrow tip in his tree house
Khasef gets her head shaved with a piece of split bamboo
Father and daughter take a nap in a Korowai tree house.
Ulai looks after his kids while Wali processes the sago.
Aerial view of a tributary from Korowai country entering the Eilanden River with a rainstorm in the distance.
Korowai man carrying a juvenile cassowary killed after it was trapped in a snare.
Felling a sago palm with a stone axe.
Felling sago palms to become infested with the larvae of capricorn beetles, a favorite food.
Wooden spikes of hardwood open a rotting sago palm for grubs of the Capricorn beetle
Korowai woman processing pulverized sago palm trunk into the starchy staple for almost every meal .
A leaf full of fish is all that was caught by a half day of emptying out a local stream
A young Korowai boy turning a bundle of sago grubs on the fire during the sago feast.
Korowai tree house at night.
Inside of a Kombai tree house.
The clan leader of the Kombai tribe, standing in the entryway of his family's tree house.
A sago grub feast arranged for one of the first groups of tourists to enter Korowai country.
Korowai girls hanging out in the last village before entering the forest.
Gerrit Van Enk giving a Korowai his first shave with a razor
Our team on the day we left for Korowai country
George Steinmetz taking photos of a Korowai tree house on a rainy morning
Johannes Veldhuizen giving Korowai child an injection against yaws.

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