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Tuka is a Mentawai shaman and our host. According to the tradition, becoming a shaman is not a duty or a choice: it's a way of escaping from a sickness or saving someone else.
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Jungle trails are some combination between river beds, mud and roots. Time to time branches are falling and the long macheta is used to cut them or to help going off-road
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The boat driver
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21century brought a new accessory in the dressing of the Mentawai people: the umbrella :)
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Occasionally rice and meat is eaten.
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Monkey skulls replaced now what was once for the mighty head-hunters the place to put the human scalps of the rival clans' members