Deep in the jungle of Indonesia, the open space in front of it borders the lake, and the dirt inside appears particularly damp. A large number of houses were "lifted" on the ground, and the foundation of the houses was several thick pieces of wood. One of the main reasons for this is to prevent the house from returning to moisture.
From a distance, the village crowd wears brightly colored hair ornaments, their muscular chests exposed, their faces painted with natural pigments, and their lower bodies obscured by trimmed palm leaves. This unique group of people is descended from the Indonesian cannibals.
Several foreign moderns drove through the jungle along the narrow watershed for more than two hours to come here, carefully crossing a "bridge" made up of two slender planks.
When the cameras were aimed at the cannibal descendants, they looked curious, and the children of the tribe ran out to watch, and the women of the tribe hid in the houses and watched them warily.
A niche linguist tried to communicate with the elders of the tribe, and when the elders learned of their intentions, they smiled. The people of the tribe seemed friendly, and they specially invited modern people to follow them to the jungle in search of food.
Indonesian cannibals had previously fought against other tribes, choosing to eat the corpses of their enemies to demonstrate to the outside world, and even then humans were not their main source of food. The descendants of today's Indonesian cannibals have abandoned their old habits and live mainly by hunting.
The camera crew followed the tribe's adult males into the depths of the jungle, and they soon came to a narrow river with several wooden stakes floating on it, but the middle of these stumps had been hollowed out, and the gaps were just enough for an adult to stand on.
The photography team and descendants of Indonesian cannibals stood on top of wooden stakes in batches, and a wooden stake could stand an average of five people. The men of the tribe paddled the water with their strong arms, and the stakes sped through the narrow, slender watershed.
The crowd anchored in a wooded area, with descendants of Indonesian cannibals rushing into the jungle like apes, followed by the camera crew. They stopped in front of a dense palm tree and began to cut the trunk with a homemade iron knife, their faces filled with joyful smiles.
The camera crew didn't know what they wanted to do, but it was certain that the palm trees in front of them would be their delicacies.
The palm tree was quickly cut down, and the men began to peel off the bark with knives, and then dug up the phloem and formation layers inside the tree, which looked like brownish-yellow discarded wood.
Another man found two large bamboo tubes and fixed one of them obliquely, and placed the other horizontally at the bottom of the bamboo tube. They put the excavated things in the bamboo tube, and then inject water from the slightly higher end of the bamboo tube, and a lot of milky white liquid will flow out from the bottom end of the bamboo tube, which is caught by the bamboo tube placed in advance.
When the bamboo tube was full, a man took out a long strip of gauze to cover it, and then placed it in the sun. At the same time, the others were not idle, they found many banana leaves to cover the fallen trees, and then some stones were built up, just around the trunk.
They did so to prevent other animals from causing damage to the trunk, and a few days later they would come here to re-adopt the ingredients. The man unveiled the gauze, and the milky white liquid had just turned into a gelatinous lumpy object, only to see him cut it open with a knife like cutting tofu, and then distribute it to everyone.
Milky white lumps are starch cubes, and they use the most natural methods to extract starch from palm trees, which has always been a delicacy in the eyes of the descendants of Indonesian cannibals. The men wrapped in fresh leaves wrapped in starch blocks and sang obscure songs to return the way, their faces filled with the most rustic smiles.
The women of the tribe warmly welcomed their men, who took the starch block and began to prepare a delicious meal. The children light firewood and make a fire, and the women put the starch blocks on top of the bamboo weaving to steam, and the starch blocks appear more elastic after steaming, and then it is the family's meal time.
In the tribe, there is another way to cook starch blocks. The women kneaded the starch into many small pieces, then spread them out in a sheet of iron, and then put them into the fire to bake. The starch blocks extracted from palm trees are rich in fiber, so the baked starch cake is very crispy.
After the starch cubes in the tribe are eaten, the men will return to the previous place to extract the starch blocks again, and if they want to change their taste, the men will go hunting deep in the jungle. Usually, they observe the movement of large animals, followed by traps around them, and sometimes animals such as wild boars and rabbits are caught in the net.
Every six months, men of Indonesian cannibal descent travel to the deepest parts of the jungle to hunt for pythons, a tradition unique to them. Once they found a trace of the python, they would use their spears to attack it, and dozens of men watched the python's every move intently, and they attacked in turn from all directions to consume the python's energy.
After defeating the python, they would use their sharp blades to divide it into huge pieces, each carrying nearly a hundred pounds of large pieces of meat on their shoulders, and then returning in an orderly manner.
Although the descendants of the Indonesian cannibals have abandoned the bad habit of cannibalism, they still live the most primitive life. No matter how the world develops, it doesn't seem to affect them much, and the only thing that has changed is that modern people in the tribe often carry cameras to conduct interviews.