Tradition Cut Finger In Papua

Is the expression of grief displayed by someone who lost family members. Crying, perhaps it is the most frequently encountered. For the general public, and especially the middle Wamena expression of grief from loss of a family member not only to cry alone.

Usually they would smear themselves with mud for a period of time. But what makes them different from culture to culture most of the tribes in other areas are cut off their fingers.
Almost the same as what is done by the Yakuza (the militant organization known in Japan) if they have violated the rules set by the organization or fail to execute their mission.As an expression of remorse, they shall cut off one of their fingers. For the people of the central highlands, cutting fingers do when family members such as husband, wife, father, mother, child, brother, or sister died. Cutting finger symbolizes sorrow and pain when losing a beloved family member.
The phrase is so profound, even to lose a limb. For the people of the central highlands, the family has a very important role. For the people Balim Jayawijaya togetherness in a family has its own values​​.

 

Cutting finger is generally done by the mother. But do not rule out cutting the finger carried by family members of the elderly male or female.
Cutting finger can also be interpreted as an attempt to prevent the 'recurrence' catastrophe that has claimed the lives of someone in the family who are grieving.

Like the story of a mother from Moni (a tribe in the Paniai region), he told me that his little finger bitten by his mother when he was born. It had to be done by the mother because of some children who were born before always died. By deciding the right little finger had just given birth to the child, the mother hopes that what happened to the children not previously happened to the baby. This sounds very eksrim, but in fact is the case, a woman from Moni has given many grandchildren and great-grandchildren to the mother.
 Cutting finger done in various ways. There is a cut finger by using sharp tools such as knives, machetes or axes. Another way is to tie a piece of string with a finger for some time so that the network is bound to be dead and then cut.

But now the culture of 'cut finger' is deprecated. now rarely encountered people who did several decades.Which can still be encountered today are those who've done it long ago. This is caused by the influence of religion who has signed up to a remote area in Papua.

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