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Ancient mummy in West Papua

August 22, 2014 – 10:35 am

Age of modernity: highland men dressed in kotekas display what is said to be a 371-year-old mummy outside of Wamena. Photo: Joanna Mayhew

Age of modernity: highland men dressed in kotekas display what is said to be a 371-year-old mummy outside of Wamena. Photo: Joanna Mayhew

Despite their inaccessibility and lack of infrastructure, Indonesia’s remote Papuan highlands have begun to feel the claws of development, leaving the area’s youth at an awkward crossroads of tradition and modernity. Great story in The Globe by Joanna Mayhew

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