Sawi people

The Sawi or Sawuy are a tribal people of Western New Guinea, Indonesia. They were known to be cannibalistic^[2] headhunters as recently as the 1950s.

Since then, many of the tribe have converted to Christianity and the world's largest circular building made strictly from un-milled poles was constructed in 1972 as a Christian meeting place by the Sawi.^[3] Christian missionary Don Richardson who lived among the Sawi wrote a book about the experience called Peace Child.

References

Further reading

• Peace Child (1974) ISBN 1-57658-289-2
• Tucker, Ruth (1983). From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan. ISBN 0-310-23937-0. 

External links

• Never the Same Documentary about visit to the Sawi in 2012

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