Some indigenous peoples wear colorful traditional clothes, paint their faces and body or put some colorful gadgets and accessories that make them brilliantly colorful.
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The Huli are the colorful indigenous people that have inhabited Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea for about 1000 years now. Their population is estimated at about 150,000.
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The Huli are farmers, hunters and gatherers. Men decorate their bodies with colored clay and wear elaborate headdress for ceremonies when wearing traditional dress as shown on the above photo.
Unique Culture
* This is quite unusual but men and women live separately.
* Huli society is polygynist – it means, men are allowed to have more than two wives but women may only have one husband at a time.
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