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At the time of funeral a cruel practice was done in Indonesia’s Dani tribe for years. Mourning was done at the price of making many handicapped for life. The extent of mourning depended on the status of the dead. Some people were considered very powerful and so were their spirits. Shocking practices were done to drive away the ghost of the dead from the living area and their bodies were mummified. Women smeared their faces with ashes and clay to express their sorrow and grief. The upper part of the girls fingers were cut. The fingers were tied off with string half an hour before the ax fell. After wards, the finger’s upper parts were left to dry, burned, and the ashes were buried in a special place. The practice is now prohibited but we can still find many women as a living example of this cruel mourning custom. This is the most painful and shocking expression of grief making the living half dead with the death of their relatives. ** CUT FINGER Is the expression of grief displayed by someone who lost family members. Crying, goods times that we most often encounter. For the general public and especially mountian community center Wamena expressions of sadness due to loss of a family member not only to cry alone. Normally they would smear themselves with mud to a certain period. But what makes them different cultures with many tribal cultures in other areas are cut off their fingers. Almost the same as what the Yakuza (the famous hard-line orangasasi in Japan) if they had violated rules set by the organization or fail in their mission. As an expression of remorse, they were obliged to cut off one of their fingers. For mountian community center, the cutting finger is conducted if the nearest family members such as husband, wife, father, mother, son, brother, or sister died. This symbolizes the cutting finger pain and the pain of losing a beloved family member. The phrase is so profound, even to lose limbs. For the central mountains, the family has a very important role. For IDR Balim community togetherness in a family has its own values. "Węne opakima dapulik welaikarek mekehasik" or basic guidelines to live together in one family, one family name / clan, one honai (home), one tribe, one ancestor, one language, one history / origins, and so on "(When Looking Balim Life - it 7 - Hisage, Julian Joli, 2005). That is why they had to cut his finger if the family had died. According to other information we collect, that the cutting finger is generally done by the mother. But do not close the possibility of cutting the finger by family members of the parent male or female. Cutting finger can also be interpreted as an attempt to prevent the 'recurrence' doom that has claimed the lives of someone in the grieving families. A mother from Moni (a tribe in the area Paniai) we met explained that her little finger bitten by his mother when he was born. It had to be done by the mother for some children who were born before always died. With the right pinkie finger decided to have just the child she gave birth, the mother hopes that what happened to the children had not happened to the baby. This sounds very eksrim, but in fact this is so, Moni home mom we met have given many grandchildren and great-grandson to his mother. Cutting finger done in various ways. There was a cut finger by using sharp instruments like knives, machetes or axes. Another way is to tie the finger with a rope for some time until the network becomes bound to die and then cut. But now the culture of 'cut the finger' has now been abandoned. We rarely meet someone who did a few decades. Which we can still find today are those who never do tempo first. This is caused by the influence of religion who has signed up to a remote area in Papua. ** In some cultures amputation is a form of mourning. This was especially true of the Dani tribe from Papua, Indonesia. The members of this tribe cut off their fingers as a way of displaying their grief at funeral ceremonies. Along with amputation, they also smeared their faces with ashes and clay, as an expression of sorrow. It isn’t very surprising to learn that women were mostly subjected to this gruesome ritual. The religious beliefs of the tribe prompted this sort of ritual. If the deceased person was considered to be powerful, it was believed that their spirits would contain equal power too. In order to appease and drive away these spirits, several shocking practices were followed. Girls who were related to the dead had the upper parts of their fingers cut off. Before being cut, the fingers would be tied with a string for over 30 minutes. After the amputation, the finger tips were allowed to dry, before they were burned and the ashes buried in a special area.

Another explanation offered for the finger-cutting ritual is that the physical pain symbolized the suffering and pain due to the loss of a loved one. In such a case, the finger would be cut by a close family member, like the mother, father or a sibling. In a similar bizarre ritual, the tip of the little finger of babies are bitten off by their mothers. This perhaps originated from a time when most newborns died, from several causes. The hope was that by biting off the finger tip, the baby would be different from the others, and would perhaps, live longer. The practice has been banned in recent years. However, older women of the tribe are often seen with snipped fingers – all five of them. ** Anguish as had been abandoned by people who loved and lost one family member to evening. Tears and feelings of loss is so profound. Sometimes it took so long to return back pain of loss and not infrequently still imprint hearts. As with the central highlands of Papua society that symbolizes grief of losing a family member who died not only to weep alone. But there are traditions that are required when there are family members or close relatives such as husband, wife, father, mother, son and brother who died. Tradition is tradition that required cutting a finger. If we look at the tradition of cutting a finger in this tradition must have been present should not be done or perhaps tradition tradition is quite extreme. But for society central highlands of Papua, this tradition is an obligation that must be done. They assume that the cut finger is a symbol of pain and pain of someone who lost some members of his family. Can be interpreted finger is a symbol of harmony, unity and strength in humans as well as a family. Although the naming of a human finger that is in the hands only mentions one family representative of Thumb. However, if the observed length of each difference in every shape and has a strength of unity and togetherness to relieve all human workload.Complementary to each other as a harmonization of living and life. If one is missing, then the component is lost and diminished the power of togetherness. Other reasons are "Wene opakima dapulik welaikarek mekehasik" or basic guidelines to live together in one family, one family name / surname, one honai (home), one tribe, one ancestor, one language, one history / origins, and so on (Hisage , Julian Joli, 07:2005).Togetherness is very important for the people the central mountains of Papua. Only the remaining wounds and blood. Poignant, tender covering the atmosphere. Wound the hearts of the bereaved family members are recovering if the wound is healed and the finger does not hurt anymore. Maybe that's why the mountain communities of Papua cut finger when there are families who died. One mother in Papua ever do traditional cut finger According to information has grown, that cuts the finger is generally done by the mother.However, did not rule out the cutting is done by members of the family parent male or female. If the cases who died was the wife who has no parents, then the husband who bear them. As has been tercontoh the children of the nation's film titled "Denias, Senandung above the Clouds". Cutting finger also be interpreted as efforts to prevent return or rejection calamity that had claimed the lives of a family member. Terkisah about trust cuts a finger so as not to repeat the disaster rejection perenggutan lives have been proven through a source that states that met a mother of the tribe Paniai monitor the central highlands of Papua tell you about a severed little finger not because of the death of a family, but being bitten by his biological mother at birth. Events pinkie cuts had to be done because earlier many new-born child died. With all the hope that the events experienced by other children do not happen to her biological mother then cut off his little finger with a bite to cut off his little finger. Sources said that it proved the mother of the tribe

monitor that the meet has provided many grandchildren and great-grandson to his biological mother who bit his little finger to break up. The tradition of cutting the fingers was also conducted by the Yakuza in Japan. This tradition comes from the bakuto the berartikan the gambler. Tradition called yubitsume cut finger. In contrast to the one in Papua cutting a finger as a rejection of the disaster that claimed the lives or the form of mourning for a family member died. However, yubitsume (cut finger) is done as a repentance atapun as a form of punishment. Initially yubitsume symbolic punishment, because the segment of the little finger is cut to make the owner's hand becomes more difficult to hold the sword firmly. It becomes a symbol of sincerity and obedience to the leader. The tradition of cutting a finger in Papua done in various ways there are to use sharp objects like knives, axes or machetes. Other way that is binding on the finger with a rope to a long time, causing the blood flow stops and blood flow stops when the newly made cutting a finger. In addition to the tradition of cutting your fingers, there is also a tradition that carried out the ceremony of mourning. Tradition is tradition of mud baths. Mud bath made by groups or members within a specified period. Mud bath has a connotation means any person who has died has returned kea lam. Humans started from the ground and back to the ground. The tradition of cutting a finger at this time belom some sources suggesting that the ongoing tradition of cutting your fingers, but no source is also a mention of this tradition has become extinct and no longer done. Can be said to exist but are rarely encountered or may be due to the influence of religion began to develop in the vicinity of the central highlands of Papua.

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