Nage
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The Nage people are a little-known indigenous people living on the remote eastern Indonesian island of Flores.
[edit] Study of the tribe
In 1940, Officer Louis Fontijne produced a Dutch Colonial Service study entitled Grondvoogden in Kelimado (Guardians of the land in Kelimado) about the Nage, as well as a tribe residing on Kelimado.
In 1983, anthropologist Gregory Forth renewed interest in the tribe, revisiting the islands while seeking a copy of Fontijne's complete study.
More attention has come to the tribe following the discovery of Homo floresiensis and a possible connection to the local stories of the Ebu Gogo.
