Puwul´s World: Endangered Native People

By Peter Bang

"Puwul´s World" is a tale for children about Puwul´s first meeting with the world on the other side of the mountains.

Puwul is nine years old and lives in the mountains in the western part of the second largest island in the world, New Guinea. He belongs to the Yali tribe, an indigenous people in West Papua who lived in a stone age culture when the pictures for this book were taken (48 pages / 50 color photos. Published by Remote Frontlines 2018).

Read more about West Papua / by the same author: PAPUA BLOOD - A Photographer´s Eyewitness Account of West Papua Over 30 Years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: May 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9788743005612

Peter Bang

Peter Bang - forfatter, fotograf og foredragsholder. Født 1957. Har udgivet bøger om natur og friluftsliv, samt rejseskildringer og dokumentarfilm om oprindelige folk. Rejser, ekspeditioner og ophold i Stillehavet, Ny Guinea, Asien, Afrika, Nordamerika og Grønland. Medlem af Eventyrernes Klub.

Book preview

Puwul is nine years old and lives in a country called West Papua. The country is situated on a large island called New Guinea.

Puwul belongs to a tribe called the Yali people. Puwul’s village is located high up in wild and inaccessible mountains in the middle of the island.

There’s about 60 people who live in the village. No one in Puwul’s village have ever seen a city and no one knows anything about televisions or refrigerators, factories and skyscrapers, roads and cars, or noise and pollution.

Puwul’s dad is chief and named Pite. He’s in charge. He is the richest man in the village. Pite has two wives and five children, three pigs and one boar. Pite is the one in the middle of the picture with his bow and arrow.

The two wives are called Tebora and Lolo. Tebora is Pite’s youngest wife and Puwul’s mother. She is standing next to Pite with the other wife. She has a