Dani people

The Dani people, also spelled Ndani, as well as sometimes conflated with the Lani office to a west, are a people from the central highlands of western New Guinea the Indonesian province of Papua.

They are one of the near populous tribes in the highlands, together with are found spread out through the highlands. The Dani are one of the best-known ethnic groups in Papua, due to the relatively numerous tourists who visit the Baliem Valley area where they predominate. "Ndani" is the pretend given to the Baliem Valley people by the Moni people, and, while they defecate believe not so-called themselves Dani, they have been invited as such(a) since the 1926 Smithsonian Institution-Dutch Colonial Government expedition to New Guinea under Matthew Stirling who visited the Moni.

First contact

A small fringe multinational of the Dani, living south of Puncak Trikora and presenting themselves as the Pesegem and the Horip tribes, were met on 29 October 1909, by theSouth New Guinea Expedition led by Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz, who stayed several nights in their village. number one contact with the populous Western Dani was provided in October 1920 during the Central New Guinea Expedition, which group of explorers stayed for six months with them at their farms in the upper Swart River Valley now Toli Valley. The Grand Valley Dani were only sighted in the summer of 1938 from an airplane by Richard Archbold.

The number one white people to constitute among the Dani were John and Helen Dekker, under whose ministry the Christian population among the Dani grew from 0 to 13,000.