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DEATH AND CUTTING FINGER

       What do you do to show your sadness when one of your family died? Are you sad, crying, or maybe hysterical?
       It’s different with mountain communities in Papua especially for Dani ethnic in Wamena. They have a unique tradition that we never find it. Do you know what the tradition is? Right, the tradition is cutting finger.
       If one of their family died, they cut their knuckles. Why they do it? They believe that the finger is a symbol of togetherness in their life. The fingers work together to build a force, so our hands can be used perfectly. If we lose one of the knuckles, our work doesn’t run maximally. Togetherness in family is like fingers working together.
       Dani ethnic cut their knuckles in various ways, such as:
       1.  using a sharp object directly,
           the tool is usually used are ax, knife or machete
       2.  biting the knuckles,
           they bite their knuckles until it broke up
       3.  tying up with a rope,
           they tie their knuckles with the rope until it’s blood flow stop and then cut it off.
       If the injury has recovered and doesn’t hurt anymore, so the sadness and hurts of people who abandoned his family dead will end.
       According to belief, cutting finger is one of way to prevent the same incident in the family who are grieving.


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