- Angu
The Angu, also called Kukukuku (pronounced "cooker-cooker") by neighbouring tribes, are a small and previously violent tribe living mainly in the high, mountainous region of south-western
Morobe , a province ofPapua New Guinea . Even though they are a small race, often less than 5 foot, they were once feared for their violent raids on more peaceful villages living in lower valleys.Cite book |title= Papua New Guinea: a travel survival guide |publisher=Lonely Planet |first=Mark |last=Lightbody |coauthors=Wheeler, Tony |isbn=0-908086-59-8 |year=1985 |edition=3 |pages=p. 89-90]Despite the high altitude and cold climate of their homeland, the Angu only wore limited clothing, including grass skirts, with a piece similar to a
sporran , and cloaks made from beaten bark, called "mals".They are also known to Westerners for practicing a sexual ritual involving preadolescent boys acting as
courtesan s for male tribal elders. [Cite web |url=http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_08_05_a_face.htm |title=The Naked Face |work=Articles from the New Yorker |publisher=Gladwell.com |date=2002-08-05 ]An account of some of the first contact between the Angu and westerners is describe vividly by
J. K. McCarthy in his book "Patrol into Yesterday: My New Guinea Years".References
External links
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/aus/png/kukukuku1937/ A New Venture into the Unknown] , booklet produced by the Melanesian Mission on their proposed mission to the Kukukuku people of New Guinea, ca. 1937.
* [http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/nuguinea/papuan/kukukuku.htm "Kukukuku, the Angu people, Papua New Guinea"] by Carolyn Leigh, "Art-Pacific", August 19, 2002, retrieved December 28th, 2005
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