It was only in the 1940s that the 140,000-strong group of tribes was found by the outside world. Today their culture and traditions are still very much alive - and intensely exotic to the homogenised global village. We enter the stone age, where penis gourds remain the clothing of choice, where pigs and women are valued property and where the 300 year old mummies of warrior ancestors are pulled out of their huts and propped in chairs for an afternoon constitutional. "This mummy is the hero of the family. He teaches us how to use an arrow and make war", says a proud descendant. But now that tourists are venturing to this remote eastern part of Indonesia, will Dani traditions and beliefs be reduced to a spectacle for curious outsiders?

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