Sisters A sister pose inside Honai. Honai, the traditional house of Papuans. The house made of wood with a conical roof made of straw or reeds. Honai purposely built narrow or small , windowless aimed to withstand the cold mountains of Papua. Honai usually built as high as 2.5 meters and in the middle of the house prepared a place to make a fire to warm themselves. Inside Honai, there is no chairs or table and also there is no bed, for the beds, they only use dry grass as the base, if it seen dirty it will be replaced with new grass taken from the field or garden and the floor of the house made of soil as a cushion. There is also no electric lights inside Honai. For lighting, they make fire by digging the soil in the bottom floor of the house to be a furnace. Because Honai has no windows and illumination only from the fire, the atmosphere in the house will feel more and more dark when night falls. As Dani house have no chimney, so the smoke builds up in the house. The constant inhalation of smoke by Dani people leads to serious health problem. So In the 1970’s the government did an attempt to get the Dani to move from their smoked-filled huts into concrete-block houses. Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/vibranze . . . . . . . . . . . . #wamena #irianjaya #natgeoasia#indonesia #papua #portrait #tribe #humaninterest#visitindonesia #baliemvalley #sony #a7rii #culture #nationalgeographic #instaindonesia #wonderfulindonesia#lembahbaliem #sukudani #danitribe #baliemfestival #people #tripadvisor #lonelyplanet #peoplearoundtheworld #sonyalpha #sonyimages #sonysingapore #SonyAlphaPortrait #SonyAlphaSg #A7RM2 (at Wamena, Papua, Indonesia)
