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The Una: A stone-age mountain tribe

The Una are a Papuan tribe that lives in the Maoke Mountains at a height of up to 2,000 m. Peaks of this very steep mountain range (which forms he backbone of Newguinea) reach up to 5,000 m.

The Una were discovered only in the 1960s. The tribe inhabits a very rugged land that is totally different from the swampy lowlands of the Asmat and the Korowai. Their way of life and of feeding themselves necessarily needs to be very different, too. They live in small villages like the one shown here that  consists of about twenty round-huts.