INDONESIA | Thursday, 13 December 2012 | Views [325] | View Larger Image
Natalius is next in line to be chief of his village in the Baliem Valley. He is showing off traditional decorations. A ring of eclectus parrot feathers sits on his head while a headband of shells and seeds with a tail feather of a parakeet sits under it. The outfit is topped off with two pig tusks in the nose and outward curling cockatoo feathers on the ears.