How did the ancient tribes live? modern savagery

Photographer Jimmy Nelson travels the world capturing wild and semi-savage tribes who manage to keep the traditional lifestyle V modern world. Every year it becomes more and more difficult for these peoples, but they do not give up and do not leave the territories of their ancestors, continuing to live the same way as they lived.

Asaro tribe

Location: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Taken in 2010. Asaro mudmen ("People from the river Asaro, covered in mud") first met with Western world in the middle of the 20th century. Since time immemorial, these people have smeared themselves with mud and put on masks to instill fear in other villages.

“Individually, they are all very sweet, but with their culture under threat, they are forced to stand up for themselves.” - Jimmy Nelson.

Tribe of Chinese fishermen

Location: Guangxi, China. Taken in 2010. Cormorant fishing is one of the oldest methods of fishing with the help of waterfowl. To prevent them from swallowing their catch, the fishermen tie their necks. Cormorants easily swallow small fish, and bring large ones to their owners.

Masai

Location: Kenya and Tanzania. Taken in 2010. This is one of the most famous African tribes. Young Maasai go through a series of rituals to develop responsibility, become men and warriors, learn how to protect livestock from predators, and keep their families safe. Thanks to the rituals, ceremonies and instructions of the elders, they grow up to be real brave men.

Livestock is central to Maasai culture.

Nenets

Location: Siberia - Yamal. Taken in 2011. traditional occupation Nenets - reindeer breeding. They lead a nomadic life, crossing the Yamal Peninsula. For more than a millennium, they survive at temperatures down to minus 50°C. The 1000 km long annual migration route lies across the frozen river Ob.

“If you don’t drink warm blood and don’t eat fresh meat, then you are doomed to die in the tundra.”

Korowai

Location: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Taken in 2010. The Korowai are one of the few Papuan tribes that do not wear koteki, a kind of penis sheath. The men of the tribe hide their penises by tightly tying them with leaves along with the scrotum. Korowai are hunter-gatherers who live in tree houses. This nation has strictly distributed rights and duties between men and women. Their number is estimated at about 3,000 people. Until the 1970s, the Korowai were convinced that there were no other peoples in the world.

Yali tribe

Location: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Taken in 2010. Yali live in the virgin forests of the highlands and are officially recognized as pygmies, since the height of men is only 150 centimeters. Koteka (penis gourd case) serves as part of traditional clothing. It can be used to determine the belonging of a person to a tribe. Yalis prefer long thin kotekas.

Karo tribe

Location: Ethiopia. Taken in 2011. The Omo Valley, located in Africa's Great Rift Valley, is said to be home to some 200,000 indigenous peoples who have inhabited it for millennia.

Here the tribes from ancient times traded among themselves, offering each other beads, food, cattle and fabrics. Not so long ago, guns and ammunition came into circulation.

Dasanech tribe

Location: Ethiopia. Taken in 2011. This tribe is characterized by the absence of a strictly defined ethnic background. A person of almost any origin can be admitted to dasanech.

Guarani

Location: Argentina and Ecuador. Taken in 2011. For thousands of years, the Amazonian rainforests of Ecuador have been home to the Guarani people. They consider themselves the bravest indigenous group in the Amazon.

Vanuatu tribe

Location: Ra Lava Island (Banks Island Group), Torba Province. Taken in 2011. Many Vanuatu people believe that wealth can be achieved through ceremonies. Dancing is an important part of their culture, which is why many villages have dance floors called nasara.

Ladakhi tribe

Location: India. Taken in 2012. The Ladakhs share the beliefs of their Tibetan neighbours. Tibetan Buddhism, mixed with images of ferocious demons from the pre-Buddhist Bon religion, has been at the heart of Ladakhi beliefs for over a thousand years. The people live in the Indus Valley, are mainly engaged in agriculture, and practice polyandry.

Mursi tribe

Location: Ethiopia. Taken in 2011. "Better to die than to live without killing." Mursi are pastoralists-farmers and successful warriors. Men are distinguished by horseshoe-shaped scars on the body. Women also practice scarification, and also insert a plate into their lower lip.

Rabari tribe

Location: India. Taken in 2012. 1000 years ago, the Rabari tribe was already roaming the deserts and plains that today belong to Western India. The women of this nation devote long hours to embroidery. They also manage the farms and deal with all financial matters, while the men look after the flocks.

Samburu tribe

Location: Kenya and Tanzania. Taken in 2010. The Samburu are a semi-nomadic people who move from place to place every 5-6 weeks to provide pasture for their livestock. They are independent and much more traditional than the Maasai. Equality reigns in samburu society.

mustang tribe

Location: Nepal. Taken in 2011. Most Mustang people still believe that the world is flat. They are very religious. Prayers and holidays are an integral part of their lives. The tribe stands apart as one of the last strongholds of the Tibetan culture that has survived to this day. Until 1991, they did not let any outsiders into their environment.

Maori tribe

Location: New Zealand. Taken in 2011. Maori - adherents of polytheism, worship many gods, goddesses and spirits. They believe that the spirits of ancestors and supernatural beings ubiquitous and help the tribe in hard times. In originated in distant times Myths and legends of the Maori reflected their ideas about the creation of the universe, the origin of gods and people.

"My tongue is my awakening, my tongue is the window of my soul."

Goroka tribe

Location: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Taken in 2011. Life in the highland villages is simple. The residents have plenty of food, friendly families, people honor the wonders of nature. They live by hunting, gathering and growing crops. Internecine clashes are not uncommon here. To intimidate the enemy, the warriors of the Goroka tribe use war paint and decorations.

"Knowledge is just hearsay as long as it's in the muscles."

Huli tribe

Location: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Taken in 2010. This indigenous people fight for land, pigs and women. They also put a lot of effort into impressing the enemy. Huli paint their faces with yellow, red and white paint, and are also famous for the tradition of making elegant wigs from their own hair.

Himba tribe

Location: Namibia. Taken in 2011. Each member of the tribe belongs to two clans, one by one's father and one by one's mother. Marriages are arranged for the purpose of expanding wealth. Here, appearance is vital. He talks about the place of a person within the group and about his phase of life. The leader is responsible for the rules of the group.

Kazakh tribe

Location: Mongolia. Taken in 2011. Kazakh nomads are the descendants of the Turkic, Mongolian, Indo-Iranian groups and the Huns, who inhabited the territory of Eurasia from Siberia to the Black Sea.

The ancient art of eagle hunting is one of the traditions that the Kazakhs have managed to preserve to this day. They trust their clan, count on their flocks, believe in the pre-Islamic cult of the sky, ancestors, fire, and supernatural powers good and evil spirits.

Surprisingly, there are still the wildest tribes of the Amazon and Africa, who were still able to survive the onset of a ruthless civilization. It is we who are surfing the Internet here, struggling to conquer thermonuclear energy and flying farther and farther into space, and these few remnants of prehistoric times lead the same way of life that was familiar to them and our ancestors a hundred thousand years ago. In order to fully immerse yourself in the atmosphere of wildlife, it’s not enough just to read the article and look at the pictures, you need to go to Africa yourself, for example, by ordering a safari in Tanzania.

The wildest tribes of the Amazon

1. Piraha

The Piraha tribe lives on the banks of the Mayhe River. Approximately 300 natives are engaged in gathering and hunting. This tribe was discovered by the Catholic missionary Daniel Everett. He lived next to them for several years, after which he finally lost faith in God and became an atheist. His first contact with the feast took place in 1977. Trying to convey the word of God to the natives, he began to study their language and quickly achieved success in this. But the deeper he sank into primitive culture the more surprised.
Piraha has a very strange language: there is no indirect speech, words denoting colors and numerals (everything that is more than two is “a lot” for them). They did not create, as we do, myths about the creation of the world, they do not even have a calendar, but for all this, their intelligence is not weaker than ours. Piraha did not think of private property, they do not have stocks - they immediately eat the caught prey or harvested fruits, so they do not rack their brains over storage and planning for the future. To us, such views seem primitive, however, Everett came to a different conclusion. Living one day and what nature gives, feasts are freed from fears for the future and all sorts of worries with which we burden our souls. Therefore, they are happier than us, so why do they need gods?

2. Sinta larga

Lives in Brazil wild tribe Sinta larga of about 1500 people. Once it lived in the jungle of rubber plants, but their massive cutting down led to the fact that Sinta larga switched to a nomadic life. They are engaged in hunting, fishing and collecting gifts of nature. Sinta larga are polygamous - men have several wives. During his life, a man gradually acquires several names that characterize either his qualities or the events that happened to him, there is also a secret name that only his mother and father know.
As soon as the tribe catches all the game near the village, and the depleted land ceases to bear fruit, then it is removed from the place and moves to a new place. During the move, the names of Sinta Largs also change, only the “secret” name remains unchanged. To the misfortune of this little tribe, civilized people found on their lands, occupying 21,000 sq. km, the richest reserves gold, diamonds and tin. Of course, they could not just leave these riches in the ground. However, the Sinta Largi turned out to be a warlike tribe, ready to defend themselves. So, in 2004, they killed 29 prospectors on their territory and did not suffer any punishment for this, except that they were driven into a reservation of 2.5 million hectares.

3. Korubo

Closer to the origins of the Amazon River lives a very warlike tribe of Korubo. They live mainly by hunting and raiding neighboring tribes. Both men and women participate in these raids, and their weapons are clubs and poisoned darts. There is evidence that the tribe sometimes comes to cannibalism.

4. Amondava

The Amondava tribe living in the jungle has no concept of time, there is no such word even in their language, as well as such concepts as “year”, “month”, etc. Linguists were discouraged by this phenomenon and are trying to understand whether it is not characteristic and other tribes from the Amazon basin. Amondava therefore does not mention ages, and when growing up or changing his status in the tribe, the aborigine simply takes on a new name. Also absent in the language of amondava and turns, which describe the process of the passage of time in spatial terms. For example, we say “before this” (meaning not space, but time), “this incident is left behind”, but in the Amondava language there are no such constructions.

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5. Kayapo

In Brazil, in the eastern part of the Amazon basin, there is a tributary of the Hengu, on the banks of which the Kayapo tribe lives. This is very mysterious tribe numbering approximately 3,000 people is engaged in the usual activities for the natives: fishing, hunting and gathering. Kayapo great specialists in the field of knowledge healing properties plants, some of them they use to heal fellow tribesmen, and others - for witchcraft. Shamans from the Kayapo tribe treat female infertility with herbs and improve potency in men.
However, most of all they interested researchers with their legends, which tell that in the distant past they were led by heavenly wanderers. The first chief of the Kayapo arrived in a kind of cocoon drawn by a whirlwind. Some attributes from modern rituals are consonant with these legends, for example, objects resembling aircrafts and space suits. Tradition says that the leader who descended from heaven lived with the tribe for several years, and then returned to heaven.

The wildest African tribes

6. Nuba

The African Nuba tribe has about 10,000 people. Nuba lands lie on the territory of Sudan. This is a separate community with its own language, which does not come into contact with the outside world, therefore, so far it has been protected from the influence of civilization. This tribe has a very remarkable make-up ritual. The women of the tribe scarify their bodies with intricate patterns, pierce their lower lip and insert quartz crystals into it.
Their marriage ritual associated with annual dances is also interesting. During them, the girls point to the favorites, putting their feet on their shoulders from behind. The happy chosen one does not see the girl's face, but can inhale the smell of her sweat. However, such an “affair” does not at all have to end in a wedding, it is only permission for the groom to sneak secretly from his parents at night into her parents’ house, where she lives. The presence of children is not grounds for recognizing the legality of marriage. A man must live with domestic animals until he builds his own hut. Only then will the couple be able to sleep together legally, but for another year after the housewarming, the spouses cannot eat from the same pot.

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7. Mursi

For women from the Mursi tribe, an exotic lower lip has become a visiting card. It is cut even in childhood for girls, pieces of wood are inserted into the cut over time. bigger size. Finally, on the wedding day, a debi is inserted into the sagging lip - a plate made of baked clay, the diameter of which can reach up to 30 cm.
Mursi easily become an inveterate drunkard and constantly carry batons or Kalashnikovs with them, which they are not averse to using. When battles for supremacy take place within a tribe, they often end in the death of the losing side. The bodies of Mursi women usually look sickly and flabby, with saggy breasts and stooped backs. They are almost devoid of hair on their heads, hiding this shortcoming with incredibly magnificent headdresses, the material for which can be anything that comes to hand: dried fruits, branches, pieces of rough skin, someone's tails, swamp mollusks, dead insects and other carrion. It is difficult for Europeans to be near the Mursi because of their unbearable smell.

8. Hamer (hamar)

On the eastern side of the African Omo Valley, the Hamer or Hamar people live, numbering approximately 35,000 - 50,000 people. Along the banks of the river stand their villages, made up of huts with gabled roofs covered with thatch or grass. The entire household is placed inside the hut: a bed, a hearth, a granary and a goat pen. But only two or three wives with children live in the huts, and the head of the family all the time either grazes cattle or protects the tribe's possessions from the raids of other tribes.
Meetings with wives are very rare, and in these rare moments, the conception of children occurs. But even after returning to the family for a short while, the men, having beaten their wives with long rods, are satisfied with this, and go to sleep in pits resembling graves, and even sprinkle themselves with earth to the point of slight asphyxia. Apparently, they like such a semi-conscious state more than intimacy with their wives, and even they, in truth, are not happy with the “caresses” of their husband and prefer to please each other. As soon as a girl develops external sexual characteristics (at about 12 years old), she is considered ready for marriage. On the wedding day, the newly-made husband, having beaten the bride hard with a reed rod (the more scars remain on her body, the more he loves), puts a silver collar around her neck, which she will wear all her life.

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9. Bushmen

There is a group of tribes in South Africa collectively called the Bushmen. These are people of short stature, broad cheekbones, with a narrow slit of the eyes and swollen eyelids. Their skin color is difficult to determine, since it is not customary in the Kalahari to waste water on washing, but they are definitely lighter than neighboring tribes. Leading a wandering, half-starved life, the Bushmen believe in afterlife. They have neither a tribal leader nor a shaman, in general there is not even a hint of a social hierarchy. But the elder of the tribe enjoys authority, although he does not have privileges and material advantages.
Bushmen surprise with their cuisine, especially "Bushman rice" - ant larvae. Young Bushwomen are considered the most beautiful in Africa. But as soon as they reach puberty and give birth, their appearance changes dramatically: the buttocks and hips spread sharply, and the stomach remains swollen. All this is not a consequence of diet food. To distinguish a pregnant Bushwoman from other belly-bellied females, she is coated with ocher or ash. Yes, and the men of the Bushmen at 35 already look like 80-year-old old men - their skin sags everywhere and becomes covered with deep wrinkles.

10. Masai

The Maasai people are slender, tall, they cleverly braid their hair. They differ from other African tribes in their manner of holding on. While most tribes easily come into contact with strangers, the Maasai, who have an innate sense of dignity, keep their distance. But nowadays they have become much more sociable, they even agree to video and photography.
There are about 670,000 Masai, they live in Tanzania and Kenya in East Africa, where they are engaged in cattle breeding. According to their beliefs, the gods entrusted the Maasai with the care and custody of all the cows in the world. Maasai childhood, which is the most carefree period in their lives, ends at the age of 14, culminating in an initiation ritual. And it is in both boys and girls. The initiation of girls comes down to the terrible custom for Europeans of circumcision of the clitoris, but without it they cannot marry and do housework. After such a procedure, they do not feel the pleasure of intimacy, so they will be faithful wives.
After initiation, the boys turn into Morans - young warriors. Their hair is coated with ocher, and covered with a bandage, they give out a sharp spear, and a kind of sword is hung on their belt. In this form, the moran should pass with a proudly raised head for several months.

Small groups of people representing non-contact tribes are completely unaware of the moon landings, nuclear weapons, the Internet, David Attenborough, Donald Trump, Europe, dinosaurs, Mars, aliens and chocolate, etc. Their knowledge is limited to their immediate environment.

There are probably a few other tribes yet to be discovered, but let's focus on the ones we know about. Who are they, where do they live and why do they remain isolated?

Although this is a slightly vague term, we define a "non-contact tribe" as a group of people who have not had significant direct contact with modern civilization. Many of them are familiar with civilization in brief, since the conquest of the New World was crowned with ironically uncivilized results.

Sentinel Island

Hundreds of kilometers east of India are the Andaman Islands. About 26,000 years ago, during the heyday of the last ice age, the land bridge between India and these islands protruded from the shallow sea and then went under water.

The Andaman peoples were nearly wiped out by disease, violence and invasion. Today only about 500 of them remain, and at least one tribe, the Jungli, has died out.

However, on one of the Northern Islands, the language of the tribe living there remains incomprehensible, and little is known about its representatives. It seems that these diminutive people cannot shoot and do not know how to grow crops. They survive by hunting, fishing, and collecting edible plants.

It is not known exactly how many of them live today, but it can be counted from several hundred to 15 people. The 2004 tsunami, which killed about a quarter of a million people across the region, also hit these islands.

As early as 1880, the British authorities planned to kidnap members of this tribe, keep them well in captivity, and then release them back to the island in an attempt to demonstrate their benevolence. They captured an elderly couple and four children. The couple died of illnesses, but the young people were gifted and sent to the island. Soon the Sentinelese disappeared into the jungle, and the tribe was no longer seen by the authorities.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Indian authorities, soldiers and anthropologists tried to make contact with the tribe, but they hid inside the jungle. Subsequent expeditions were met with either threats of violence or attacks with bows and arrows, and some ended in the deaths of the intruders.

Non-contact tribes of Brazil

In the vast areas of the Brazilian Amazon, especially in the depths of the western state of Acre, there are up to a hundred non-contact tribes, as well as a few other communities that would willingly establish contact with the outside world. Some members of the tribes were exterminated by drugs or gold diggers.

It is known that respiratory diseases, common in modern society, can quickly wipe out entire tribes. Since 1987, it has been official government policy not to make contact with tribes if their survival is threatened.

Very little is known about these isolated groups, but they are all distinct tribes with different cultures. Their representatives tend to avoid contact with anyone who tries to contact them. Some hide in the forests while others defend themselves with spears and arrows.

Some of the tribes, such as the Awá, are nomadic hunter-gatherers, which makes them more protected from external influences.

Kavahiva

This is another example of non-contact tribes, but it is best known for its nomadic lifestyle.

It seems that in addition to bows and baskets, its representatives can use spinning wheels to make strings, ladders to collect honey from bee nests, and complex animal traps.

The land they occupy has received official protection, and anyone who encroaches on it is subject to severe persecution.

Over the years, many of the tribes were engaged in hunting. The states of Rondônia, Mato Grosso and Marañano are known to contain many dwindling non-contact tribes.

loner

One person presents a particularly sad picture simply because he is the last member of his tribe. Living deep in the rainforest in Tanaroo territory in the state of Rondonia, this man always attacks those who are nearby. His language is completely untranslatable, and the culture of the vanished tribe to which he belonged remains a mystery.

Apart from basic crop-growing skills, he also enjoys digging holes or luring animals. Only one thing is clear, when this man dies, his tribe will be nothing but a memory.

Other non-contact tribes of South America

Although Brazil contains a large number of non-contact tribes, such groups of people are known to still exist in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, French Guiana, Guyana and Venezuela. In general, little is known about them compared to Brazil. Many tribes are suspected of having similar yet distinct cultures.

Contactless tribes of Peru

The nomadic group of Peruvian peoples endured decades of aggressive deforestation for the rubber industry. Some of them even deliberately made contact with the authorities after fleeing drug cartels.

In general, keeping away from all other tribes, most of them rarely turn to Christian missionaries, who are the occasional spreaders of disease. Most tribes like the Nanti can now only be observed from a helicopter.

Huaroran people of Ecuador

This people is bound by a common language that seems to be unrelated to any other in the world. As hunter-gatherers, the tribe has, over the past four decades, settled on a long-term basis in fairly developed area between the Kuraray and Napo rivers in the east of the country.

Many of them have already made contact with the outside world, but several communities have rejected this practice and instead chose to move to areas untouched by modern oil exploration.

The Taromenan and Tagaeri tribes number no more than 300 members, but they are sometimes killed by lumberjacks who are looking for valuable mahogany wood.

A similar situation is observed in neighboring countries where only certain segments of tribes such as the Ayoreo of Bolivia, the Carabayo of Colombia, the Yanommi of Venezuela remain completely isolated and prefer to avoid contact with the modern world.

Contactless tribes of West Papua

About 312 tribes live in the western part of the island of New Guinea, 44 of which are non-contact. The mountainous area is covered in dense, viridian forests, which means we still don't notice these wild people.

Many of these tribes avoid communication. Many human rights violations have been recorded since their arrival in 1963, including murder, rape and torture.

The tribes usually settle along the coast, roam the swamps and survive by hunting. In the central region, which is located at a high elevation, the tribes are engaged in growing sweet potatoes and raising pigs.

Little is known about those who have not yet established official contact. In addition to the difficult terrain, researchers human rights organizations and journalists are also banned from exploring the region.

West Papua (far left of the island of New Guinea) is home to many non-contact tribes.

Do similar tribes live elsewhere?

There may be non-contact tribes still lurking in other forested parts of the world, including Malaysia and parts of Central Africa, but this has not been proven. If they do exist, it might be best to leave them alone.

Threat from the outside world

Non-contact tribes are mostly threatened by the outside world. This article serves as a kind of warning.

If you want to know what you can do to prevent their disappearance, then it is recommended to enter into a rather interesting non-profit organization Survival International, whose employees work around the clock to make sure that these tribes live their unique lives in our colorful world.

Despite the fact that today almost every person has the opportunity to purchase the attributes of modern life with the money earned, such as mobile phone, there are still places on our planet where people live in terms of development close to primitive ones.

Africa is the place on Earth where today in the impenetrable jungle or desert you can meet creatures that are very reminiscent of us in the distant past. Scientists agree that it was from the African continent that Homo sapiens originated.

Africa is unique in itself. Not only common species of animals are concentrated here, but also endangered species. Due to its direct location on the equator, the mainland has a very hot climate, which is why the nature there is the most diverse. That is why there were conditions for the preservation of life in the form in which the wild tribes remained.

A striking example of such a tribe is the wild Himba tribe. They live in Namibia. Everything that civilization has achieved has passed by the Himba. There is no hint of modern life. The tribe is engaged in cattle breeding. All the huts where the members of the tribe live are located around the pasture.

The beauty of the women of the tribe is determined by the presence a large number jewelry and the amount of clay applied to the skin. But the presence of clay is not only a ritual, but also fulfills a hygienic purpose. The scorching sun, the constant lack of water - these are just a few list of difficulties. The presence of clay allows the skin not to be subjected to thermal burns and the skin gives less water.

Women in the tribe are involved in all household affairs. They take care of livestock, build huts, raise children, and make ornaments. This is the main entertainment in the tribe.

Men in the tribe are given the role of husbands. Polygamy is accepted in the tribe if the husband is able to feed the family. Marriage is expensive. The cost of a wife reaches 45 cows. Fidelity of the wife is not a mandatory thing. A child born from another father will remain in the family.

Tourist guides often turn to the tribe for tours. For this, savages receive souvenirs and money, which are then exchanged for things.

In the northwest of Mexico, there is another tribe that civilization has bypassed. It is called Tarahyumara. They are also called "beer people". The name stuck to them due to their ritual of drinking maize beer. Beating the drums, they drink beer, which is mixed with narcotic herbs. True, there is another translation option: “running soles” or “those with light legs.” And he is also well deserved, but more on that later.

They paint their bodies bright colors. You can imagine how it looks when you realize that the tribe has 60 thousand people.

From the 17th century, savages learned to cultivate the land and began to grow cereals. Prior to this, the tribe ate roots and herbs.

Video: The Tarahumara - A Hidden Tribe of Superathletes Born to Run. The Indians of this tribe are considered the best runners, but not in speed, but in endurance. They can run 170 km without any problems. do not stop. There is a recorded case of an Indian running about 600 miles in five days.

Palawan is an island in the Philippine archipelago. The Taut Batu tribe lives in the mountains there. These are the people of the mountain caves. They live in caves and grottoes. The tribe has existed since the 11th century and human achievements are not known to them. By the way, here is the underground river Puerto Princesa.

When the monsoon rains do not come, and they can go on for half a year, the tribe is engaged in growing potatoes and rice. This is the only time when members of the tribe get out of the caves. When it starts to rain again, the whole tribe climbs into their grottoes and just sleeps, waking up only to eat.

Video: Philippines, Palawan, Tau't Batu or "People of the Rocks".

The list of tribes could go on and on. But it doesn't matter anymore. You just have to remember that somewhere on Earth there are places where life has stopped in its development, allowing others to develop further. Looking at the wild tribes, at their customs, dances, rituals, you understand that they do not want to change anything. They lived like this for thousands of years before they were discovered and, apparently, plan to continue to exist for as long.

Movies, a small selection.

Hunting for survival (Kill to survive) / Kill To Survive. (From the series: In Search of the Hunter Tribes)

There are also series: Keepers of Traditions; Sharp-toothed nomads; Hunting in the Kalahari;

Even more interesting series, about the life of people in harmony with nature - Planet of people - Human Planet.

Also, there is such interesting transmission like magic adventure. Moderator: Sergey Yastrzhembsky.

For example, one of the series. Adventure Magic: The Man in the Tree.

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The main part of the peoples of Africa includes groups consisting of several thousand, and sometimes hundreds of people, but at the same time - does not exceed 10% of the total population of this continent. As a rule, such small ethnic groups are the wildest tribes.

It is to this group that, for example, the Mursi tribe belongs.

Ethiopian tribe Mursi - the most aggressive ethnic group

Ethiopia is the oldest country in the world. It is Ethiopia that is considered the progenitor of mankind, it is here that the remains of our ancestor, modestly named Lucy, were found.
More than 80 ethnic groups live in the country.

Living in southwestern Ethiopia, on the border with Kenya and Sudan, settled in the Mago Park, the Mursi tribe is distinguished by unusually harsh customs. They, by right, can be nominated for the title of the most aggressive ethnic group.

Prone to frequent alcohol consumption and uncontrolled use of weapons. IN Everyday life The main weapon of the men of the tribe is the Kalashnikov assault rifle, which they buy in Sudan.

In fights, they can often beat each other almost to death, trying to prove their dominance in the tribe.

Scientists attribute this tribe to the mutated negroid race, With distinctive features in the form of short stature, wide bones and crooked legs, low and strongly compressed foreheads, flattened noses and pumped up short necks.

Mursi female bodies often look flabby and sickly, bellies and breasts drooping, and backs stooped. There is practically no hair, which was often hidden under intricate headdresses of a very fantasy appearance, using as a material everything that can be picked up or caught nearby: rough skins, branches, dried fruits, marsh clams, someone's tails, dead insects, and even an incomprehensible smelly fall.

most famous feature The Mursi tribe has a tradition of inserting plates into the lips of girls.

The more public, civilized Mursi do not always show all these characteristic attributes, but the exotic look of their lower lip is business card tribe.

Plates are made of wood or clay in different sizes, the shape can be round or trapezoidal, sometimes with a hole in the middle. For beauty, the plates are covered with a pattern.

The lower lip is cut in childhood, pieces of wood are inserted there, gradually increasing their diameter.

Mursi girls start wearing plates at the age of 20, six months before marriage. The lower lip is pierced and a small disk is inserted into it, after the lip is stretched, the disk is replaced with a larger one and so on until the desired diameter is reached (up to 30 centimeters !!).

The size of the plate matters: the larger the diameter, the more the girl is valued and the more cattle the groom will pay for her. Girls must wear these plates at all times except during bedtime and meals, and they can also take them out if there are no males of the tribe nearby.

When the plate is pulled out, the lip droops like a long round cord. Almost all Mursi have no front teeth, the tongue is cracked to the point of blood.

The second strange and frightening adornment of Mursi women is the monista, which are recruited from human finger phalanges (nek). One person has only 28 of these bones in their hands. Each necklace usually consists of phalanxes of five or six tassels, some lovers of "jewelry" monist wrap their neck in several rows

It glistens with fat and emits a sweetish rotting smell of melted human fat, every bone is rubbed daily. The source for the beads never runs out: the priestess of the tribe is ready to deprive the hands of a man who has violated the laws for almost every offense.

It is customary for this tribe to do scarification (scarring).

Men can afford to be scarred only after the first murder of one of their enemies or ill-wishers. If they kill a man they adorn right hand, if a woman, then the left.

Their religion, animism, deserves a longer and more shocking story.
Short: women are priestesses of death so they daily give their husbands drugs and poisons.

Antidotes are distributed by the High Priestess, but sometimes salvation does not come to everyone. In such cases, a white cross is drawn on the widow's plate, and she becomes a very respected member of the tribe, who is not eaten after death, but buried in the trunks of special ritual trees. Honor is given to such priestesses because of the fulfillment of the main mission - the will of the God of Death Yamda, which they were able to fulfill by destroying physical body and releasing the highest spiritual Essence from his man.

The rest of the dead are waiting for the collective eating of the whole tribe. Soft fabrics are boiled in a cauldron, bones are used for jewelry-amulets and thrown on swamps to mark dangerous places.

What seems very wild for a European, for Mursi is commonplace and tradition.

Bushmen tribe

African Bushmen are the most ancient representatives human race. And this is not an assumption at all, but a scientifically proven fact. Who are these ancient people?

The Bushmen are a group of hunting tribes. South Africa. Now these are the remains of a large ancient African population. Bushmen are notable for their short stature, wide cheekbones, narrow slit eyes and much swollen eyelids. true color It is difficult to determine their skin, because in the Kalahari they are not allowed to waste water on washing. But you can see that they are much lighter than their neighbors. Their skin tone is slightly yellowish, which is more typical for South Asians.

Young bushwomen are considered the most beautiful among the female population of Africa.

But as soon as they reach puberty and become mothers, these beauties are simply unrecognizable. Bushmen women have overdeveloped hips and buttocks, and their belly is constantly swollen. This is a consequence of malnutrition.

To distinguish a pregnant Bushwoman from other women of the tribe, she is smeared with ash or ocher, as appearance this is very difficult to do. Bushmen men already by the age of 35 become like octogenarians, due to the fact that their skin sags and the body is covered with deep wrinkles.

Life in the Kalahari is very harsh, but even here there are laws and regulations. The most important wealth in the desert is water. There are old people in the tribe who know how to find water. In the place that they indicate, the representatives of the tribe either dig wells or bring water out with the help of plant stems.

Each Bushman tribe has a secret well, which is carefully filled with stones or covered with sand. During the dry season, the Bushmen dig a hole at the bottom of a dried-up well, take a stem of a plant, suck water through it, taking it into their mouths, and then spit it out into the shell of an ostrich egg.

South African Bushmen tribe the only people on Earth, whose men have permanent erections, This phenomenon does not cause any discomfort or inconvenience, except for the fact that while hunting on foot, men have to fasten the penis to the belt so as not to cling to branches.

Bushmen don't know what it is private property. All animals and plants growing on their territory are considered common. Therefore, they hunt both wild animals and farm cows. For this they were very often punished and destroyed by entire tribes. Nobody wants such neighbors.

Among the Bushmen tribes, shamanism is very popular. They do not have leaders, but there are elders and healers who not only cure diseases, but also communicate with spirits. Bushmen are very afraid of the dead, and firmly believe in the afterlife. They pray to the sun, moon, stars. But they do not ask for health or happiness, but for success in hunting.

Bushman tribes speak Khoisan languages ​​which are very difficult for Europeans to pronounce. Characteristic these languages ​​are click consonants. The representatives of the tribe speak among themselves very quietly. This is a long-standing habit of hunters - so as not to scare the game.

There is confirmed evidence that even a hundred years ago they were engaged in drawing. Still found in caves cave drawings depicting people and various animals: buffaloes, gazelles, birds, ostriches, antelopes, crocodiles.

In their drawings there are also unusual fairy tale characters: ape people, eared snakes, people with a crocodile face. There's a whole gallery in the desert open sky, which presents these amazing drawings by unknown artists.

But now the Bushmen do not paint, they are great in dance, music, pantomime and legends.

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