Wutung village in West Sepik set along the Bougainville Bay right at the international border with Indonesia can be intriguing to a visitor.
First its inhabitants are neither Papua New Guineans or Indonesian Melanesians.
Yes they have family connections to as far as Jayapura, Indonesia and the international border land marks are otherwise irrelevant for the Wutung villagers- the same for the Vanimo West Coast villagers.
The famous light house land mark signifies the international border stands aloft the hill just west of the village and beneath those hills is a cave that has human bones.
When we visited the cave accessing it via the sea during low tide, the human bones were there.
The skull, bones of the hands and legs were well kept and candles lit on the side.
During certain occasions locals offer vigil prayers for the lives of people whose bones remained there.
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