CHILDS PENIS COVER DANI PEOPLE

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PENIS COVER DANI PEOPLE NO RESERVE
NICE PENIS COVER FOR A BOY WITH FEATHERS FROM DANI PEOPLE IRIAN JAYA PERFECT CONDICTION CM. 17 Includes display mount.
The Dani of the Baliem Valley
in the central highlands of Irian Jaya are among the most primitive people on earth. Unknown to the outside world before 1938, 60,000 of them lived a stone age existence when Archibald landed his Consolidated Model 28 flying boat on their lake. They still live a very independent existence, surviving on a diet consisting mostly of sweet potatoes. The traditional men wear only a penis gourd, simple jewelry such as a decorative arm band, boar's tusks through their noses, or a Cassawary feather headdress. The penis gourds (horim) are specially grown using an orchid chord and a weight to control their shape and length. They are supported by two strings, three strings in the case of an especially long one that needs extra help to maintain the appropriate angle. A wardrobe of several gourds is maintained for various occasions. The Dani men are actually quite modest and would never consider venturing out without a horim, as they would then be naked. With the modern world encroaching, fewer and fewer of the Dani men dress in the traditional manner.
The life expectancy of these gentle people was 60 years in 1938, about the same as the Western world. Dani men and women live separate lives, with the women tending the fields and performing the day-to-day manual labor. The men do the hard labor of digging irrigation ditches and erecting huts. The men (and boys over eight) sleep together in the men's hut (honnay), while the women sleep with the children and pigs in their own hut (wew umah). Wives are purchased with pigs and are deemed about equally valuable.
Old penis gourd with feathers and natural string, used for a young boy, ex private Australin collection, Dani people- Irian Jaya
The Penis Gourd come with a professional museum mount.
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