Te' Pik

Te’ Pik means “tree group”, and this pik travels through trees predominantly. They make their homes in the trees too, and are experts are making blow pipes (don’t use spears or bows). They hunt mainly arboreal animals, and utilise poisonous fungus that grows within trees to taint their darts. Their houses are semi-permanent in the crowns or buttress of trees, and live as a single community (i.e. one family per pik). The men shave the hair short at the back but leave the front to grow. No clothes are worn, except a belt for the penis. Women have short hair and wear no clothes. Painting their faces from tree colours, and tends to be communal relationships, i.e. multiple lovers, mothers and fathers. Feathers feature heavy in their beautification. The children are brought up by the whole community.