These people do not know what electricity is or how to drive cars, they live as their ancestors lived for centuries, getting food by hunting and fishing. They cannot read or write, and can die from a common cold or scratch. All this is about the wild tribes that still exist on our planet.
There are not many such communities closed from civilization; they live mainly in warm countries, in Africa, South America, Asia and Australia. Today it is believed that no more than 100 such tribes have survived on the entire planet. Sometimes it is almost impossible to study their life and culture, since they live too isolated and do not want to have contact with outside world, or their immune system is not ready to “meet” modern bacteria, and any disease, the course of which a modern person may not even notice, will be fatal for a savage. Unfortunately, civilization is still “advancing”, uncontrolled cutting of trees is taking place almost everywhere, people are still developing new lands, and wild tribes are forced to leave their lands, and sometimes even go to the “big” world.
Papuans
This people lives in New Guinea and is found in Melanesia, on the islands of Halmahera, Timor and Alor.
In terms of anthropogenic appearance, the Papuans are closest to the Melanesians, but with a completely different language and culture. Some tribes speak completely different languages, which are not even related. Today their national language is Tok Pisin Creole.
In total there are approximately 3.7 million Papuans, with some wild tribes numbering no more than 100 people. Among them there are many nationalities: Bonkins, Gimbu, Ekari, Chimbu and others. It is believed that these people inhabited Oceania 20-25 thousand years ago.
Every community has a public house called buambramba. This is a kind of cultural and spiritual center of the entire village. In some villages you can see a huge house in which everyone lives together; its length can reach 200 meters.
Papuans are farmers, the main crops grown are taro, banana, yam and coconut. The harvest must be stored standing, that is, collected only for eating. Savages also raise pigs and hunt.
Pygmies
These are the wild tribes of Africa. Even the ancient Egyptians knew about their existence. They are mentioned by Homer and Herodotus. However, the existence of pygmies was confirmed for the first time only in the 19th century, when they were discovered in the Uzle and Ituri river basin. Today, these people are known to exist in Rwanda, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Zaire and in the forests of Gabon. You can even meet pygmies in South Asia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia.
A distinctive feature of pygmies is their short stature, from 144 to 150 centimeters. Their hair is curly and their skin is light brown. The body is usually quite large, and the legs and arms are short. Pygmies are classified as a separate race. Special language It has not been revealed among these peoples whether they communicate in those dialects whose peoples live nearby: Asua, Kimbuti and others.
Another feature of this people is the short life path. In some settlements, people only live until they are 16 years old. Girls give birth while they are still very small. In other settlements, women were found to be going through menopause as early as 28 years of age. A meager diet threatens their health; pygmies even die from chickenpox and measles.
To date, the total number of this people has not been established; according to some estimates, there are about 40 thousand, according to others - 200.
For a long time, the pygmies did not even know how to make fire; they carried the hearth with them. They engage in gathering and hunting.
Bushmen
These wild tribes live in Namibia and are also found in Angola, South Africa, Botswana, and Tanzania.
These people are classified as capoid race, with lighter skin than blacks. The tongue has many clicking sounds.
The Bushmen lead an almost vagabond lifestyle, constantly half-starved. The system of building a society does not presuppose the presence of leaders, but there are elders who are chosen from among the most intelligent and authoritative individuals in the community. This people does not have a cult of ancestors, but they are very afraid of the dead, so they conduct a unique burial ritual. The diet contains ant larvae, the so-called “Bushman rice”.
Today, most Bushmen work on farms and little adhere to their former way of life.
Zulu
These are the wild tribes of Africa (southern part). There are believed to be about 10 million Zulus. They speak Zulu, the most common language in South Africa.
Many representatives of this nationality have become adherents of Christianity, but many observe their own faith. According to the canons of the Zulu religion, death is the result of witchcraft, and all life on the planet was created by a creator. This people has preserved many traditions; in particular, believers can perform the ritual of ablution about 3 times a day.
The Zulus are quite organized, they even have a king, today it is Goodwill Zwelantini. Each tribe consists of clans, which include even smaller communities. Each of them has its own leader, and in the family this role is played by the husband.
The most expensive rite of wild tribes is marriage. To take a wife, a man will have to give her parents 100 kilograms of sugar, corn and 11 cows. For such gifts you can rent an apartment in the suburbs of Durban, with a gorgeous view of the ocean. That's why there are a lot of bachelors in tribes.
Korowai
Perhaps this is the most brutal tribe in the whole world. These people were discovered only in the 90s of the last century.
The life of the wild tribe is very harsh, they still use the teeth and tusks of animals as weapons and tools. These people pierce their ears and noses with the teeth of predators and live in the impenetrable forests of Papua - New Guinea. They sleep in trees, in huts, very similar to those that many built in childhood. And the forests here are so dense and impenetrable that neighboring villages do not even know about another settlement located several kilometers away.
The pig is considered a holy animal, the meat of which the Korowai eat only after the boar is old. The animal is used as a riding pony. Often a piglet is taken from its mother and raised from childhood.
The women of the wild tribe are common, but sexual intercourse occurs only once a year; on the remaining 364 days it is not allowed to touch them.
The cult of the warrior flourishes among the Korowai. These are very hardy people; for several days in a row they can feed only on larvae and worms. It is believed that they are cannibals, and the first travelers who managed to reach the settlement were simply eaten.
Now that the Korowai have learned about the existence of another society, they do not seek to leave the forests, and everyone who comes here tells a legend that if they deviate from their traditions, there will be a terrible earthquake and the entire planet will perish. Korowai scare away uninvited guests with stories about their bloodthirstiness, although so far there has been no evidence of this.
Maasai
These are the true noble warriors of the African continent. They are engaged in cattle breeding, but never steal livestock from neighbors and lower tribes. These people are able to protect themselves from lions and European conquerors, although in the 21st century the too much pressure of civilization, which is increasingly advancing, has led to the fact that the tribes are rapidly decreasing in number. Now children herd livestock almost from the age of 3, women are responsible for the entire household, and the remaining men mostly relax or fight back against uninvited guests.
It is among these people that they have a tradition of pulling back their earlobes and inserting round objects the size of a good saucer into the lower lip.
Maori
The most bloodthirsty tribes of New Zealand and the Cook Islands. In these places, Maori are the indigenous population.
These people are cannibals who terrified more than one traveler. The path of development of Maori society went in a different direction - from man to animal. The tribes were always located in areas protected by nature itself, additionally carrying out fortification work, creating multi-meter ditches and installing a palisade, on which the dried heads of enemies were always displayed. They are prepared carefully, cleaned of the brain, strengthened the nasal and eye sockets and bulges with special boards and smoked over low heat for about 30 hours.
Wild tribes of Australia
In this country, a fairly large number of tribes have survived, living far from civilization and having interesting customs. For example, the men of the Arunta tribe in an interesting way show respect for each other by giving their wife to a comrade for a short period of time. If the gifted man refuses, then enmity begins between families.
And in one of the tribes of Australia in childhood For boys, the foreskin is cut and the urinary canal is pulled out, thus creating two genital organs.
Amazon Indians
According to the most conservative estimates, about 50 different wild Indian tribes live in the tropical forests.
Pirahu. This is one of the most undeveloped peoples on the planet. There are about 200 people in the settlement, they live in the Brazilian jungle. The Aborigines use the most primitive language on the planet, they have no history or myths, they don’t even have a number system.
Pirahu do not have the right to tell stories that did not happen to them. You cannot enter new words or words heard from other people. The language does not designate animals, vegetation, or flowers.
These people have never been seen to be aggressive; they live in trees and huts. They often act as guides, but do not accept any objects of civilization.
Kayapo tribe. This is one of the wild tribes of the world, which lives in the eastern part of the river basin. Their number is about 3 thousand people. They firmly believe that they are controlled by a man who descended from heaven. Some Kayapo household items really resemble astronaut spacesuits. Despite the fact that the entire village walks around naked, God still appears in clothing and even with a headdress.
Korubo. This people is perhaps the most unstudied of all the tribes in the world that live remote from civilization. All residents are quite aggressive towards any guests. They engage in gathering and hunting, often attacking neighboring tribes. Even women take part in the battles. A distinctive feature of this tribe is that they do not paint themselves or get tattoos, unlike most aborigines.
The life of wild tribes is quite harsh. If a child is born with a cleft palate, he is immediately killed, and this happens quite often. A child is often killed even after he has grown up, if he suddenly falls ill.
The tribe lives in long rooms with several entrances, typical for Indians. Several families live in such houses. Men of this tribe can have several wives.
The most basic problem of all wild tribes is the inexorable expansion of habitats civilized man. It is a huge risk that these are practically primitive people will soon disappear, unable to withstand the onslaught of the modern world.
The exact number of African peoples is unknown, and ranges from five hundred to seven thousand. This is explained by the vagueness of the separation criteria, under which residents of two neighboring villages can consider themselves to be different nationalities without having any special differences. Scientists are inclined to the figure of 1-2 thousand to determine ethnic communities.
The bulk of the peoples of Africa include groups consisting of several thousand and sometimes hundreds of people, but at the same time they do not exceed 10% of the total population of this continent. As a rule, such small ethnic groups are the most savage tribes. The Mursi tribe, for example, belongs to this group.
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Living in southwestern Ethiopia, on the border with Kenya and Sudan, settled in Mago Park, the Mursi tribe is distinguished by unusually strict customs. They can rightfully be nominated for the title: the most aggressive ethnic group.
They are prone to frequent alcohol consumption and uncontrolled use of weapons (everyone constantly carries Kalashnikov assault rifles or fighting sticks with them). In fights, they can often beat each other almost to death, trying to prove their dominance in the tribe.
Scientists attribute this tribe to a mutated Negroid race, with distinctive features in the form of short stature, wide bones and crooked legs, low and tightly compressed foreheads, flattened noses and inflated short necks.
In the more public Mursi who come into contact with civilization, it is not always possible to see all these characteristic attributes, but exotic look their lower lip is business card tribe.
The lower lip is cut in childhood, pieces of wood are inserted there, gradually increasing their diameter, and on the wedding day a “plate” of baked clay is inserted into it - debi (up to 30 centimeters!!). If a Mursi girl does not make such a hole in her lip, then they will give a very small ransom for her.
When the plate is pulled out, the lip hangs down in a long, round rope. Almost all Mursi have no front teeth, and their tongue is cracked and bleeding.
The second strange and terrifying decoration of Mursi women is the monista, which is made from human phalanges of fingers (nek). One person has only 28 of these bones in his hands. Each necklace costs its victims five or six tassels; for some lovers of “costume jewelry,” the monista wraps around the neck in several rows, glistening greasyly and emitting a sweetish, rotting smell of melted human fat, which is rubbed on every bone every day. The source for beads never runs low: the priestess of the tribe is ready to deprive the hands of a man who has broken the laws for almost every offense.
It is customary for this tribe to do scarification (scarring). Men can afford scarring only after the first murder of one of their enemies or ill-wishers.
Their religion, animism, deserves a longer and more shocking story.
Briefly: women are Priestesses of Death, so they give their husbands drugs and poisons every day. The High Priestess distributes antidotes, but sometimes salvation does not come to everyone. In such cases, a white cross is drawn on the widow's plate, and she becomes a very respected member of the tribe, who is not eaten after death, but is buried in the trunks of special ritual trees. Honor is due to such priestesses due to the fulfillment of the main mission - the will of the God of Death Yamda, which they were able to fulfill by destroying physical body, and releasing the highest spiritual Essence from his man.
The rest of the dead will be collectively eaten by the entire tribe. Soft tissues are boiled in a cauldron, bones are used for amulets and thrown in swamps to mark dangerous places.
What seems very wild for a European is commonplace and tradition for the Mursi.
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Modern society cannot exist in an isolated world. Trade, awareness, scientific innovations and other factors require establishing contacts with the outside world. But there are people who live in their own world, isolated from their surroundings. They not only abandoned the benefits and conveniences of modern civilization, but also avoid contact with people in every possible way.
A tribe living on North Sentinel Island. Formally, the island belongs to Hindu territories. It is customary to call savages by the name of the island, because no one knows what they call themselves. Well, this is actually almost all the information that is known about the Sentinelese themselves. Even the exact number of the people is not known.
But why is there so little information about them and how did they manage to hide for so long? It's all about the aggressive behavior of the natives. They greet approaching helicopters and boats with bows and arrows, and the bloodthirsty tribe immediately kills random guests. Local authorities are afraid of the Sentinelese like fire, so they try not to meddle in their possessions.
The people were discovered in 1970 by archaeologists in southeastern Papua. Like thousands of years ago, they use stone tools, eat almost everything that moves and live in trees.
How did they manage to stay isolated for so long?
Korowai live in the most impenetrable forests. In 2010, the census service tried to count the number of Korowai residents, so it took them more than two weeks to get to the settlements through the wilds and thickets. The Korowai tribe is believed to be cannibals. It is possible that they simply ate their discoverers.
The loneliest man in the world lives in dense forests Brazil. He builds huts from palm trees and digs rectangular holes one and a half meters deep. No one knows why he needs these pits. Whenever an attempt is made to make contact with him, he leaves the hut in which he lived, looks for a new place and builds a new hut with a rectangular pit. He has been living this lifestyle for at least about 15 years. Scientists believe that he is the only representative of a certain extinct tribe.
Brazil once passed a law on the forced relocation of tribes. Those who did not want to obey the new law were simply exterminated. Perhaps a similar fate befell this lone man's tribe.
Old Believers- Lykov family. This is what the family called themselves, found in 1978 on the territory of harsh and inhospitable Siberia. The first meeting with a person horrified them, because they had no idea about the existence of other people. The Lykovs lived in a log hut and used homemade everything in their everyday life: dishes and clothes.
As it turns out, this is not the only hermit family. In 1990, a family was discovered in Siberia that led an isolated lifestyle.
Back in the 17th century, when the church split, several Old Believers families left their homes and settled in the remote lands of Siberia in order to avoid reprisals.
Mashko-Piro- an isolated tribe that aggressively resisted making contact. Any attempt at dialogue was met with a barrage of arrows and stones. To protect tourists, Peruvian authorities have banned people from approaching the Mashco-Piro area.
However, the inhabitants of the tribe themselves decided to reveal their existence and began to appear in open areas. Why did it happen wild tribe decided to make contact? As it turned out, they were interested in pots and machetes, which were so necessary on the farm.
Pintubi. In 1984, in the Australian desert, the Pintubi people met for the first time white man. Seeing white people, Pintubi decided that it was evil spirits- and the first meeting was, to put it mildly, not friendly. But later, having decided that " pink man"does not pose a threat and may even be useful, they have softened. The secrecy of the Pintubi tribe from the outside world is due to their nomadic lifestyle.
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Hot water, light, TV, computer - all these items are familiar to modern man. But there are places on the planet where these things can cause shock and awe like magic. It's about about the settlements of wild tribes that have preserved their way of life and habits since ancient times. And these are not the wild tribes of Africa, who now wear comfortable clothes and know how to communicate with other peoples. We are talking about Aboriginal settlements that were discovered relatively recently. They do not seek to meet modern people, quite the contrary. If you try to visit them, you may be met with spears or arrows.
The development of digital technology and the exploration of new territories leads a person to meet unknown inhabitants of our planet. Their habitat is hidden from prying eyes. Settlements may be located in deep forests or on uninhabited islands.
Tribes of Nicobar and Andaman Islands
On a group of islands located in the Indian Ocean, 5 tribes live to this day, the development of which stopped in the Stone Age. They are unique in their culture and way of life. The official authorities of the islands look after the aborigines and try not to interfere in their lives and everyday life. The total population of all tribes is about 1000 people. The settlers are engaged in hunting, fishing, farming and have virtually no contact with the outside world. One of the most evil tribes is the inhabitants of Sentinel Island. The number of all settlers of the tribe does not exceed 250 people. But, despite their small numbers, these natives are ready to repel anyone who sets foot on their lands.
Tribes of North Sentinel Island
The inhabitants of Sentinel Island belong to the group of so-called uncontacted tribes. They differ high level aggression and unsociability towards a stranger. It is interesting that the appearance and development of the tribe is still not fully known. Scientists cannot understand how black people could begin to live in such a limited space on an island washed by the ocean. There is an assumption that these lands were inhabited by inhabitants more than 30,000 years ago. People remained within their lands and homes and did not move to other territories. Time passed, and water separated them from other lands. Since the tribe did not develop in terms of technology, they did not have contacts with the outside world, therefore any guest for these people is a stranger or enemy. Moreover, communication with civilized people simply contraindicated for the Sentinel Island tribe. Viruses and bacteria, to which modern humans have immunity, can easily kill any member of the tribe. The only positive contact with the settlers of the island was made in the mid-90s of the last century.
Wild tribes in the Amazon forests
Are there wild tribes today that have never been contacted? modern people? Yes, there are such tribes, and one of them was recently discovered in the dense forests of the Amazon. This happened due to active deforestation. Scientists have long said that these places could be inhabited by wild tribes. This guess was confirmed. The only video filming of the tribe was carried out with light aircraft one of the largest television channels USA. The footage shows that the settlers' huts are made in the form of tents covered with leaves. The inhabitants themselves are armed with primitive spears and bows.
Piraha
The Piraha tribe numbers about 200 people. They live in the Brazilian jungle and differ from other aborigines in their very weak development of language and the absence of a number system. Simply put, they can't count. They can also be called the most illiterate inhabitants of the planet. Members of the tribe are forbidden to speak about what they do not know from their own experience or to adopt words from other languages. In Piraha speech there is no designation of animals, fish, plants, colors or weather. Despite this, the natives are not malicious towards others. Moreover, they often act as guides through the jungle.
Loaves
This tribe lives in the forests of Papua, New Guinea. They were discovered only in the mid-90s of the last century. They found a home in the thickets of forests between two mountain ranges. Despite their funny name, Aborigines cannot be called good-natured. The cult of the warrior is widespread among the settlers. They are so hardy and strong-willed that they can feed on larvae and pasture for weeks until they find suitable prey while hunting.
Loaves live mainly in trees. By making their huts from branches and twigs like huts, they protect themselves from evil spirits and witchcraft. The tribe reveres pigs. These animals are used like donkeys or horses. They can be slaughtered and eaten only when the pig becomes old and can no longer carry a load or a person.
In addition to the aborigines living on islands or in tropical forests, you can meet people who live according to old customs in our country. So in Siberia for a long time lived the Lykov family. Fleeing persecution in the 30s of the last century, they went into the remote taiga of Siberia. For 40 years they survived by adapting to the harsh conditions of the forest. During this time, the family managed to almost completely lose the entire crop of plants and recreate it anew from a few surviving seeds. Old Believers were engaged in hunting and fishing. The Lykovs made their clothes from the skins of killed animals and coarse home-woven hemp threads.
The family has preserved old customs, chronology and the original Russian language. In 1978, they were accidentally discovered by geologists. The meeting became a fatal discovery for the Old Believers. Contact with civilization led to diseases of individual family members. Two of them died suddenly from kidney problems. Died a little later younger son from pneumonia. This once again proved that contact between modern man and representatives of more ancient peoples can become deadly for the latter.
The ethnic diversity on Earth is amazing in its abundance. People living in different parts of the planet are at the same time similar to each other, but at the same time very different in their way of life, customs, and language. In this article we will talk about some unusual tribes that you might be interested to know about.
Piraha Indians - a wild tribe inhabiting the Amazon jungle
The Pirahã Indian tribe lives among the Amazon rain forest, mainly along the banks of the Maici River, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
This nation South America known for its language, Pirahã. In fact, Pirahã is one of the rarest languages among the 6,000 spoken languages worldwide. The number of native speakers ranges from 250 to 380 people. The language is amazing because:
- does not have numbers, for them there are only two concepts “several” (from 1 to 4 pieces) and “many” (more than 5 pieces),
- verbs do not change either by numbers or by persons,
- there are no names for colors,
- consists of 8 consonants and 3 vowels! Isn't this amazing?
According to linguistic scholars, Piraha men understand rudimentary Portuguese and even speak very limited topics. True, not all male representatives can express their thoughts. Women have little understanding of Portuguese and do not use it for communication at all. However, the Pirahã language has several loanwords from other languages, mainly Portuguese, such as "cup" and "business".
Speaking of business, the Piraha Indians trade Brazil nuts and provide sexual services in order to buy consumables and tools, for example, machetes, milk powder, sugar, whiskey. Chastity is not a cultural value for them.
There are several more interesting moments associated with this nation:
- Pirahã have no compulsion. They don't tell other people what to do. There seems to be no social hierarchy at all, no formal leader.
- This Indian tribe has no idea of \u200b\u200bdeities and God. However, they believe in spirits, which sometimes take the form of jaguars, trees, or people.
— it feels like the Pirahã tribe are people who don’t sleep. They can take a nap of 15 minutes or at most two hours throughout the day and night. They rarely sleep through the night.
The Wadoma tribe is an African tribe of people with two toes.
The Vadoma tribe lives in the Zambezi River valley in northern Zimbabwe. They are known for the fact that some members of the tribe suffer from ectrodactyly, three middle toes are missing from their feet, and the outer two are turned inward. As a result, members of the tribe are called “two-fingered” and “ostrich-footed”. Their huge two-toed feet are the result of a single mutation on chromosome number seven. However, in the tribe such people are not considered inferior. The reason for the common occurrence of ectrodactyly in the Vadoma tribe is isolation and the prohibition of marriage outside the tribe.
Life and life of the Korowai tribe in Indonesia
The Korowai tribe, also called the Kolufo, live in the southeast of the autonomous Indonesian province of Papua and consist of approximately 3,000 people. Perhaps before 1970 they did not know about the existence of other people besides themselves.
Most Korowai clans live in their isolated territory in tree houses, which are located at an altitude of 35-40 meters. In this way, they protect themselves from floods, predators, and arson by rival clans who take people, especially women and children, into slavery. In 1980, some of the Korowai moved to settlements in open areas.
Korowai have excellent hunting and fishing skills, and are engaged in gardening and gathering. They practice slash-and-burn agriculture, when the forest is first burned and then crops are planted in this place.
As far as religion is concerned, the Korowai universe is filled with spirits. The most honorable place is given to the spirits of ancestors. In times of need, they sacrifice domestic pigs to them.
