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The Korafe tribe are a people that live in a mainly tribal manner as they wear very outlandish headgear as well as many other types of jewelry not commonly found anywhere else. The people were rich in culture and that can be seen within the complexity in the Korafe Language.  Korafe  is a  Papuan language  spoken in  Oro Province , in the "tail" of  Papua New Guinea . It is part of the Binanderean family of the  Trans–New Guinea  phylum of languages. Korafe or could also be called Kailikaili, Kaire, Korafe, Korafi, Korape, and Kwarafe is a language spoken in the Oro Province more specifically in the Tufi District, and Cape Nelson Headlands.  The Korafe language has primarily  SOV  or Subject-Object-Verb word order. Korafe Dictionary Images Movies Korafe Tribe  

Crocodile Men of Papua New Guinea Chambri  (previously spelled  Tchambuli ) are an ethnic group in the  Chambri Lakes  region in the  East Sepik  province of  Papua New Guinea . The social structures of Chambri society have often been a subject in the study of gender roles. They speak the  Chambri language .  Margaret Mead , a  cultural anthropologist , studied the Chambri in 1933. Her influential book  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies  became a major cornerstone of the  women's liberation movement , since it claimed that females had significant and dominant roles in Chambri society.  This community is located near   Chambri Lake   in   Papua New Guinea , in the middle region of the   Sepik River . The Chambri consist of three villages: Indingai, Wombun, and Kilimbit. Together, these communities contain about 1,000 people. When the Chambri first came together, though isolated, they ...

The  Orokaiva  are a people indigenous to  Papua New Guinea . In 1930, they were reported as being speakers of  Binandere  and divided into three groups: the Umo-ke ("River People"); the Eva-Embo ("the Salt-Water People"); and the Pereho ("the Inland People").  The Orokaiva occupied what is now   Oro Province   and the periphery of the area they inhabited was marked by the   Owen Stanley Range   in the south,   German New Guinea   in the west, and the   Hydrographers Range   in the south. The people of Orokaiva have traditionally stories that some of their ancestors were giants. These can be proven by traditional artifacts of the past kept by knowledge keepers and modern generations of Orokaiva people. The stone axes, spears and arm bands are not normal sizes but giant sizes. These people are great Warriors and fighters who battle and won many traditional wars to protect their land.  The  rite of passage ...

The  Baining tribe  are among the earliest continuously located inhabitants of the  Gazelle Peninsula  of  East New Britain ,  Papua New Guinea ; they currently live in the  Baining Mountains , from which they take their name. The Baining are thought to have been driven to this area in comparatively recent times by the  Tolai  tribes who migrated to the coastal areas. The Baining migration inland may also have been influenced by major volcanic activity taking place over the centuries around the present day town of  Rabaul  on the north-east coast.  The  Baining languages  are a distinct  language family  spoken by the Baining. They are possibly related to the  Taulil–Butam languages  as well as to extinct  Makolkol .  The label 'Baining' was originally applied to speakers of Qaqet, the first group in regular contact with administrators and missionaries, and the language family was origina...