Jee-anim

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The Jee-anim (also Yei-nan , Je-nan , Yee-anim or Jee-nan ) is a Papua People on the north of Merauke , Southeast Papua ( West New Guinea ), Indonesia , lives.

As a result of their remoteness, the Jee-anim are considered to be a tribe that has best preserved its cultural characteristics to this day. At the lower reaches of the Maro , the Jee-anim and Marind-anim territories border each other. The southern neighbors are the Kanum people, whose territories extend to the Arafura Sea .

literature

  • Hans Nevermann : The Je-nan. In: Baessler-Archiv 24, 1941.
  • J. van Baal: Jan Verschueren's Description of Yéi-nan Culture (Extracted from the Posthumous Papers) . (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde; 99). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Wirz: The material culture of the Marind-anim
  2. ↑ Paul Wirz: The Marind-anim of Dutch-South-New-Guinea vol. 1, part 1, p. 23 ff.