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A group of hunter- gatherers living in a remote Indonesian forest are thought to have become the first tribe to be officially recognized as TREE-DWELLERS.
The Korowai, or Koroway, from Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua, live in tree houses, speak their own tribal language, and live off forest animals and plants. Almost 3,000 members of the nomadic clan, whose people wear only banana leaves, were recorded for the first time in the country’s 2010 census. Members of the tribe skilfully climb ladders to their wooden homes often as high as 164ft (50m) from the forest floor where they usually live in a family of up to eight. Homes are built at different heights depending on how well they get on with their fellow tribe members. The horticultural tribesmen excel at hunting and fishing.
Where is Korowai?
Total population 2,900 Regions with significant populations Indonesia (Papua (province)) Languages Korowai language, Indonesian language Religion Christianity (predominantly), Animism, Dynamism (metaphysics), Totemism
nomadic Nomadic people travel from place to place rather than living in one place all the time.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ asia/indonesia/7879391/Indonesian-tribe-officially- recognised-as-tree-dwellers.html
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