A woman from the Korowai tribe carries her sleeping baby in a mesh bag on her back, deep in the Indonesian wilderness.
In 2015 I joined an expedition into the heart of the Papuan jungle, to meet the elusive Korowai tribe.
At the main jungle camp we saw the tribe processing sago, the staple diet of the Korowai.
While working this woman carefully put her baby in a bilum bag. The bag was then suspended from the woman’s forehead, so the child rested against her back.
The child slept soundly and didn’t stir while their mother used leaves to weave baskets for carrying sago.
As I watched the Korowai at work, I was gripped by a mystery illness. I eventually collapsed in the mud.
As I was days from the nearest hospital, it was one of the scariest experiences of my life.
