Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The story of Mumi in Baliem Valley

There are 5 tribes in Papua who have a death tradition in the form of bodies being a mummy, namely a tribe Mek at Bintang Mountains, tribes Dani at Baliem Valley, the Moni tribe in Intan Jaya, the Yali tribe at Kurima and Mee in Dogiyai ," said the researcher from the Papua Hall of Surah Papua Day (10/20), Monday (18/20).

Today explained, the bodies being used as a mummy are not the bodies of people carelessly. Usually, it is the body of someone who is considered instrumental for their tribes, whether it is the head of tribe, the commander of war or a very respected person.
"There are stages in preparing and handling mummy, namely pointing to the ethnic member who is tasked with working on the umi process, preparing firewood, and preparing honai as a place for the implementation of the umian ," he explained.
In the process of solving the mummy, first the body is wiping down with firewood. Before the preparation was prepared by the pig who was born as a sign of time.

The infiltration time is the birth until the pork has a long fangs. After completing the preparation, then ceremonies were performed to bathe the officers, releasing a mummy by cutting the pig that is used as a sign of time and echoing the pig's tail cut to the neck of the mummy. After all the processes of the mummy finished, it ended with a stone grilled party.
Interestingly, there is one other process in umian in Papua. The tribes of Mek, put the bodies on the tree for one year, resulting in a natural mummy.

"The cold weather over the tree makes the body naturally durable. Only after that, it was sent down and put in a cave ," explained Day.

So there are two toolkit methods in Papua, namely he smoked and placed on the tree. Then, the mummy is placed in honai (Papua traditional house) and is in the cave.

"When seen, the mummys in Papua is the position of sitting. The reason is that in prehistory concepts, the burial in a sitting position is like a baby in the womb ," explained Day.

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