Lani_people

Lani people

Lani people

Indigenous people in Western New Guinea

The Lani are an indigenous people in Puncak, Central Papua and Lanny Jaya, Highland Papua, usually labelled 'Western Dani' by foreign missionaries, or grouped—inaccurately—with the Dani people who inhabit the Baliem Valley to the east.

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Population

2023 Lani Culture Festival in Tiom, Lanny Jaya

The total population of Lani tribes in the 1980s, as reported by Douglas Hayward in his book The Dani of Irian Jaya, Before and After Conversion was around 200,000 people.[1]

Culture

The most distinguishable feature of the Lani and Dani tribes are their kotekas, or penis gourds made from the bottle gourd. Lani men wear kobewak or kobeba, which are thicker and larger (can have a diameter of 10 cm or more) and are flat at the top. The large kobewaks are used to hold tobacco and other valuables.[2] The directions of the kobeba depend on the social status of the wearer, straight upright meant the wearer is virgin male. If it leans to the right, the wearer is brave, rich, and nobleman, on the other hand, leaning left, meant the wearer is descendant of Panglima Perang or Apendabogur (war chief). Meanwhile Lani women wear two types of skirt made of barks, the colourful green, yellow, red, and purple sali koe or the brown and purple tipped skirt called sali keragi.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Douglas James Hayward (1980). The Dani of Irian Jaya Before And After Conversion. Regions Press. ASIN B0007AW6B4.
  2. [2]
    "Lani Dani Yali". detikTravel (in Indonesian). 2011-03-16. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  3. [3]
    Weya, Teku; Kiwo, Diko; Bogum, Ika; Kogoya, Resalina; Yikwa, Nelson; Bogum, Yerni. "Namendek Budaya An Pigagin (Saya Punya Budaya Saya Yang Pegang), E-Katalog Budaya Suku Lani" (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2024-01-07.

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