Interesting mummification process in what is a very decomposition-friendly environment... Body cut open, bamboo drainage poles inserted, smoked for a month, hematite clay smeared over the mummified body for preservation. Repair work using sap from certain local trees as glue. Quite an art.
Charles Higginson "discovered" these tribes in 1907. He said of the Anga tribe: "bloodthirsty savages who greedily lapped up the entrails of their own kin during the smoking process".
The drained bodily fluids/ entrails were put to use as a skin lotion, apparently. Probably a few other uses too, I imagine...
Waste not, want not
