The smoked corpses of Papua New Guinea: Tribe pays respect to the dead by curing them and hanging them above their village to look over them
From the cliffs of a village in Papua New Guinea's Morobe highlands, charred corpses leer at passers-by.
Their flesh is stained red, and they seem to be imprisoned within cages of bamboo, as if to keep them from leaping down and devouring any explorer who strays too close.
But this macabre practise is not (only) a way to scare away strangers. For the Anga people in these remote parts of the country, it is the highest honour they can bestow on their dead.
Dead men, women and children are effectively smoke cured, in much the same way as a kipper.
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