Photos of Portraits of West-Papua, West-Papua

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Portraits of West-Papua

The people of West-Papua are friendly and happy to have their photo taken, men, women and children; they are proud of their culture and certainly not camera shy. In the highlands the Dani people often grease their faces and bodies with pig fat and soot, for warmth and may wear ornamentation like shell necklaces, string hair nets and sometimes feathers from birds of paradise.

Dani man portrait
 
Elderly Dani man
 
Dani girl portrait
 
Man with headdress
 
Portrait Dani boy
 
Dani with pig fat
 
Friendly Dani man
 
Happy Dani boy
 
Little Dani girl
 
Young Dani boy
 
Young man, Wakatu
 
Man of Hitigima
 
Dani man, pig grease
 
Woman of Enarotali
 
Hospital nurse
 
Man with arrows
 
Man with bow
 
Elderly woman
 
Elderly man
 
Man with string net
 
Smoking sideways
 
Man from Biak
 
Girl from Biak
 
Boy of Biak
 
Boy at Mokmer beach
 
Girl of Manokwari
 
Manokwari girl
 
Girl of Sorong
 
Papua boy, Kaimana
 
Man of Kaimana
 

The faces of the interior are mainly ethnic Papuan tribes, while on the coast there a mixture of Papuans, Melanesians and Austronesian groups, including Indonesians; a great deal of intermarriage has taken place in the coastal regions, where migrants have also settled, a result of Indonesia's "Transmigrasi" policy.