Yabim people

Yabim, also spelled Yabem and Jabem, are a people in Papua New Guinea.[1] They speak the Yabem language.

Headgear used in dance performances

German missionaries visited them and wrote about them.[2]

The North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church has relations with the Yabim District.[3]

References
  1. "Definition of YABIM". www.merriam-webster.com.
  2. Frazer, James George (November 24, 1913). "The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead: The belief among the aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia". Macmillan – via Google Books.
  3. Godby, Rick (September 30, 2019). "Visiting Papua New Guinea".
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