62 The smoked corpses of Papua New Guinea: Tribe pays respect to the dead by curing them and hanging them above their village to look over them
Villagers smoke dead men, women and children like kippers They drain the fat from the dead bodies before and use it as cooking oil Practise has been banned sine 1975 but still carries on in remote parts From the cliffs of a village in Papua New Guinea’s Morobe highlands, charred corpses leer at passers-by. Their flesh is stained red, and they seem to be imprisoned within cages of bamboo, as […]