Long history Mummy Papua/ HANTU MUMI PAPUA WAMENA

Most people in the world mengidentikkan Mummy with Egypt because of the history of the Mummy of Pharaoh in Egypt. However, the long history of mummy also have people living in Papua.

In a study conducted in the late 1980s until the early 1990s, has seven mummy found in Jayawijaya regency and Yahukimo. Seventh Mummy are in:

(a) Kurulu Sub-District, northern city of Wamena 3 mummy;

(b) Assologaima Sub-district, western city of Wamena 3 mummy,

(c) and a mummy in the district of Kurima District. Yahokimo is the only female mummy.

From the seventh mummy, mummy only Werupak Elosak in the village of Aikima and mummy Wimontok Mabel in the village of Yiwika - Subdistrict Kurulu - Jayawijaya District, which is known by travelers to domestic and overseas to visit the Jayawijaya district because indigenous people the opportunity to the people outside to watch them. However, to see the mummy, mummy, the tourists have to pay.

Mummy Werupak Elosak (when the name is still alive) is approximately 230 years. The traditional clothing worn, such as koteka, still intact. He is the commander of war and died as a result of puncture wounds sege (spear). The wound is still clearly visible until now.
Werupak as the mummy find, in addition to honor service during his life, also because Werupak own request. He wanted to mayatnya preserved.

This is different from the mummy Wimontok Mabel. He is the head of a tribe. Wimontok war continue to have meaning. Because he lives during the war chieftain of strategists. Wimontok die of old age and give testament to the family that jasadnya preserved. In terms of size, the mummy is smaller than the Weropak. However, the conditions are better.

Every five years once held ceremony to roll kind necklace in the neck Wimontok. Cutting ceremony was accompanied by a pig. Fat from the pork and smeared it all over the body to mummify. Tersebutlah necklace from the age estimates obtained mummy, which is about 382 years.

The mummy is made by rolling out the sacred ceremony. Followed by evaporation remains for three months continuously. After a mummy, further treatment is handled men only. Because, according to local custom, women will make the touch mummy to be damaged and calamitous for women and the environment. Mummy, mummy is only placed in a wooden box and stored in pilamo, traditional houses special men.

Not all corpses / to find that, or be allowed to become a mummy. Only the services that have large as the head of the tribe or clan war commander who allowed the customary mummify.

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otzi si manusia es/ OTZI THE ICE MAN

Ötzi, is a mummy (Mummy) is the oldest ever found in Europe. Mummy, which is more than 5 millennium is found accidentally by two mountain climber, a pair of husband and wife from Nuremberg, Germany, called Helmut and Erika Simon on 19 September 1991. This congeal mummy found in glasier near the Austrian-Italian border. Although the location of invention in the Italian region, but initially fihak Italian authorities deal with a little averse to find these discoveries, which may only disangkanya human bones "modern" is injured or is likely to find soldiers remnants of war in Napoleon two centuries ago. Fihak Italy and Austria fihak leave to deal with all this rush to find these discoveries. The Austria at mengevakuasi successfully to find the city Innsbruck, Austria where to find it first identified.

Together find it also found some equipment and clothing such as the property of the mummy, sisa2 clothes, shoes, axes, knives and sarungnya and others. From identifying and from equipment that was found with the mummy, can be ascertained that the mummy came from the days of copper, or about 5,300 years ago. Originally suspected that the Ötzi died because of this landslide buried snow or snow storms affected. However, it appears that the alleged new Ötzi is likely died because of human sacrifice ritual, which often occur at that time.

When it is known that a mummy Ötzi is valuable because it includes the oldest mummy ever found in Europe, then try to claim fihak Italy fihak return from Austria of the "ownership" the mummy. Although fihak Austria and then to return the mummy to the fihak Italy, but the "problem" of the law who find the mummy is still a problem. Erika Simon, the wife finds the mummy (the husband Helmut Simon died in 2006) dealing with the middle of a Slovenian woman, Magdalena Mohar Jarc, and also the origin of a Swiss woman, Sandra Nemeth, who admitted to have found Ötzi before the pair Simon find it. The case up to now still hang in the court in Bolzano Italy.

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Mumi Gadis Inca di Musium Argentina

Mummy is called La Doncella or between; is a junior girl who died more than 500 years ago in a ritual sacrifice in the Andes Mountains.

According to the archeologists who found a mummy find in Argentina in 1999 and, mummy girl and two other small children accidentally left in the top of the mountains to die cold as offerings to the deity.

Johan Reinhard, a traveler from National Geographic, which led the expedition, describes the discovery while preserving the mummy as the best ever I see. (National Geographic News is a division of the National Geographic Institute)

High Country Archaelogical museum in Salta, Argentina, La Doncella show, the oldest victim of three other victims, for the first time exhibited to the public on 6 September.
Museum mummy was placed in a cooler box with a low-oxygen conditions to ensure that the mummy could still be better naturally.

While the mummy two other children are still kept in storage for further study, said one of the responsible museum. (nationalgeographic / Erabaru)

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