"Ndani" is the name given to the Baliem Valley people by the Moni people, and, while they don't call themselves Dani, they have been known as such since the 1926 Smithsonian Institution-Dutch Colonial Government expedition to New Guinea under Matthew Stirling who visited the Moni.
Sweet
potatoes are important in their local culture, being the most important
tool used in bartering, especially in dowries. Likewise pigs feasts are
extremely important to celebrate events communally; the success of a
feast, and that of a village big man (man of influence) or organiser, is
often gauged by the number of pigs slaughtered.
The
Dani use an earth oven method of cooking pig and their staple crops
such as sweet potato, banana, and cassava. They heat some stones in a
fire until they are extremely hot, then wrap cuts of meat and pieces of
sweet potato or banana inside banana leaves.
The
food package is then lowered into a pit which has been lined with some
of the hot stones described above, the remaining hot stones are then
placed on top, and the pit is covered in grass and a cover to keep steam
in. After a couple of hours the pit is opened and the food removed and
eaten. Pigs are too valuable to be served regularly, and are reserved
for special occasions only.
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