World Tribes|KOROWAI INDONESIA| Full Sinhala Documentry|By UdeniGunasekara|Lowa wataa|කොරෝවායි
Channel: UdeniGunasekara
Date: 01/05/2022

කොරෝවායි
කොරෝවායි යනු පැපුවා නිව්ගිනියාවේ බ්‍රසා ගං ඉවුරේ ජීවත් වන ගෝත්‍රයකි. 1970 වන තෙක් එය මුළුමනින්ම හුදෙකලා වූ ජනතාවක් වූ අතර ගස් මුදුනේ පාවෙන ගම්මාන ඉදිකිරීම සහ මිනීමරුවන් වීම නිසා ලෝකය කම්පනයට පත් විය.

මෙම ගෝත්‍රයට අයත් පුද්ගලයන් 3,000 ක් පමණ සිටින අතර ඔවුන් විදුලිය හෝ මාර්ග නොදැන 10 සිට 12 දක්වා කණ්ඩායම් වශයෙන් ජීවත් වෙති.

ඔවුන් "කඛුවා" මරා ආහාරයට ගනී, පුද්ගලයන් තම ජනතාවට විපත් ගෙන එන මායාකාරියන් ලෙස සැලකූහ.
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Korowai people

The Korowai, also called the Kolufo, are the people who live in southeastern West Papua in the Indonesian province of Papua, close to the border with Papua New Guinea. They number about 3,000.[1]

According to The Daily Telegraph, "Until the late 1970s, when anthropologists embarked on a study of the tribe, the Korowai were unaware of the existence of any peoples other than themselves

Language
The Korowai language belongs to the Awyu–Dumut family (southeastern Papua) and is part of the Trans–New Guinea phylum. A dictionary and grammar book have been produced by a Dutch missionary linguist.

Living


Tree houses built by the Korowai people in Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, primarily for the benefit of film crews as true Korowai homes are only 5 to 10 meters[citation needed] above the ground and are not built on stilts but fastened to crowns of tall trees.
The majority of the Korowai clans live in tree houses on their isolated forested territory.[3]

Since 1980 some have moved into the recently opened villages of Yaniruma at the Becking River banks (Kombai–Korowai area), Mu, and Mbasman (Korowai–Citak area). In 1987, a village was opened in Manggél, in Yafufla (1988), Mabül at the banks of the Eilanden River (1989), and Khaiflambolüp (1998).

The village absenteeism rate is still high, because of the relatively long distance between the settlements and the food (sago) resources.

The Korowai appear to now smoke tobacco but not to drink alcohol.


Economy
The Korowai are hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists who practice shifting cultivation. They have excellent hunting and fishing skills.

Information about Korowai trade patterns is scant. The Korowai have a few gender-specific activities, such as the preparation of sago and the performance of religious ceremonies in which only the male adults are involved.

Some Korowai have since the early 1990s generated moderate cash income by working with tour companies selling tours into the Korowai region. Within the tourist industry, opportunities are limited to hosting tour groups in villages for tourist-sponsored sago feasts, carrying luggage, and performing traditional displays.

Leadership structures are based on personal qualities of big men, rather than on institution. Interclan warfare occurs mainly because of witchcraft and sorcery-related conflicts

Religious life
The Korowai universe is filled with a variety of spirits, some more personal of character than others. Reverence is paid especially to the red headed creator god Gimigi. The Korowai ascribe an important role in their daily lives of honoring their "One God" with one being used as the concept of a prime deity from whom all others either descend or to whom all others pay homage.

Once in a lifetime, a Korowai clan must organize a sago grub festival in order to stimulate prosperity and fertility in a ritual fashion. In times of trouble they sacrifice domesticated pigs to the spirits of the ancestors.

The Korowai have an extraordinary and rich oral tradition: myths, folktales, (magical) sayings and charms, and totem traditions. With respect to death and afterlife the Korowai believe in the existence of a reciprocal type of reincarnation: those who died can be sent back at any time to the land of the living, by their kinsmen in the land of the dead, in order to reincarnate in a newly born infant of their own clan.

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