Is the expression of sadness that was shown by someone who lost family members. Crying, the goods times that the most frequently encountered. For the general public and especially the middle mountian Wamena expressions of sadness of losing one family member not only with tears saja.But that makes them different culture to the culture of most tribes in other areas are cut off their fingers.
For mountian community center, a cut finger is made for any member of the family as husband, wife, father, mother, son, brother, or sister died dunia.Cut the finger symbolizes sorrow and pain of losing a beloved family member. The phrase is so profound, even should have lost limbs. For the people of the central mountains, the family has a very important role. For society Balim Jayawijaya togetherness in a family has its own values.
Cutting the finger is generally done by women. But do not close the possibility of cutting fingers carried by family members of the male parent, or any women. Cutting fingers can also be interpreted as an attempt to prevent the 'repeated' this evil that has claimed the lives of someone in your family who are grieving.
Cutting fingers done in various ways. Someone cut a finger by using sharp instruments like knives, machetes or axes. The other way is by tying finger with a rope for some time so tied into the dead tissue and then cut.
But now the culture of 'cut the finger' is deprecated. now rarely encountered people who do it a few decades. 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 remote areas in Papua.
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