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The indigenous people of Skull Island are a tribe of humans living on Skull Island who first appear in the 2005 film King Kong. They are descended from castaways stranded on the island's shores, and due to the harsh conditions of the island, have apparently forgotten all civility, and live in constant fear of the monsters on the other side of the wall, and when the earth tremors properly, they sacrifice one of their own to Kong.
Appearance
Jackson's Skull Island natives are dark skinned with lank, straight or wavy hair. Some of them have light-colored eyes.most have uneven teeth and are adorned with beads and bones. Having lost the ability to weave during their tenure on Skull Island, their garments were crudely knotted from locks of their own hair.
Culture
Humans had inhabited Skull Island for thousands of years. The first civilization of Skull Island natives dominated the island and built cities and monoliths all throughout it. It is possible that these first colonists brought the ancestors of the Kong with them from their original home. However, due to unknown circumstances, their civilization collapsed, and had been collapsed for at least one thousand years before the Venture's arrival.[1] By that time, the human culture on the island was not even descended from the original islanders. These new arrivals, in adapting to the unforgiving environment of Skull Island lived in the ruins of their predecessors' catacombs, and had regressed considerably. What crude garments they wore were knotted together out of their own hair and bits of bone[2]. Living in the shadow of their predecessors' great wall, the only thing keeping them safe from the horrors of the jungle, the crumbling coastline that lead to the savage waters also claimed its share of their lives. The bravest of their number would tether themselves together with crude ropes and pole-vault between rocks and sunken buildings to hunt for anemones, crabs, shellfish, and seaweed. Because of the scarcity of resources, Skull Islanders were always in fierce competition, and thus what someone else had could be taken by force, and thus the will of the strong prevailed. Their primitive societal structure was governed by a shaman-woman who facilitated sacrifices to Kong. While all the forces of nature were divine and mysterious to the Skull Islanders, none was more powerful than Kong. They believed that by offering him sacrifices timed with tremors in the earth, they might be granted respite from his wrath.[3] The men of their tribe went through facial scarification as a rite of passage, as they formed new identities represented by the markings on their face. The shaman women led the loosely guided tribe through their maternally transferred title, with each one surrounded by acolytes. The girl chosen for sacrifice was taken from her family, who were allowed to make her ceremonial necklace out of hair, feather, and bone, before they were offered, drugged or screaming, to the beast-god.
History
- King Kong (2005)
King Kong
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Technology
Hunting
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Gathering
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Firemaking
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Punting
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Camouflage
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Books & Short Stories
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Attractions
- Skull Island: Reign of Kong (2016, Universal's Islands of Adventure)
Comics
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Gallery
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Trivia
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References
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