Tari

The Huli are the largest language group in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, numbering more than 75,000 people. They are a short, stocky and muscular people with varying shades of brown skin, coarse, tightly bound black hair and brown eyes. There are also a small percentage of red-heads with very light brown skin. The Huli personality is characterized by a tendency to be very proud, strong, self-assertive and very individualistic, yet modest, religious and community-minded. They regard their culture as being superior to that of their neighbors, though they do borrow cultural elements from them. The Huli are keenly aware of their history and folklore as evidenced in their knowledge of family genealogy and traditions. Unlike many Highland peoples, they have not relinquished much of their cultural expressions to the new and innovative ways of the white-men who arrived to live among them in 1951.

Approximately seventy people per square mile live in the Tagari River basin and on the slopes of the surrounding mountain ranges at an altitude of about 1,600 meters above sea level. The Huli live in a land of perpetual Spring where it rains even out of ten days and where the temperature ranges from eighty degrees F. during the day to forty-five degrees F. at night. Occasional frosts do blanket the valley destroying the people's mounded gardens.

Tari: Hap bilong ol Huli Man.
Gutpela Taim i stap wantaim yu.

Tari is largest town of the Huli people, one of the last discovered peoples on the face of the earth. The Hul live in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. They number over 65,000 and they speak Huli, Tok Pisin (the language above) and English.

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