Jalkuton

Dani tribe is the indigenous people that inhabit the fertile lands of the Baliem Valley in West Papua, New Guinea. The members of this tribe cut off their fingers as a way of displaying their grief at funeral ceremonies. They will cut off their hand’s fingers to express love to someone they love very much, and the cutting is said to be symbolic of the pain suffered after losing a loved.When a person in Dani’s tribe passed away, his relative like wife or husband cut off his hand finger and bury together with the dead body of her husband or wife, as a symbol of love to her husband or wife.