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Name: |
Homo sapiens sapiens |
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Abilities and Weapons: |
intelligence, dexterity |
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Occupation: |
Endurance hunter-gatherer |
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Home: |
Skull Island |
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First Appearance: |
"The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island" (from 2005) |
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Diet: |
Omnivore |
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Size: |
Height: 1.5-1.8 meters |
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Status: |
Presumed extinct once Skull Island sank. Although some might have survived by sailing. |
The natives are the inhabitants of Skull Island. They live in villages outside of the 70 foot wall, and they worship Kong like a god. Whenever they come across a woman with "the golden hair" that arrives on the island, they sacrifice her to Kong. They have their own language in which they speak and do not seem to like outsiders coming into their village. They appeared as main antagonists of the game and then minor antagonists of the film.
They're also known as Skull Islanders.
Description[]
They are largely portrayed as tribal with stone age technology and culture. Their skin is of an almost black compltexion and like real tribal-people their clothing largely consists of loincloths. Though most of their language seems made up, there are actually some words in malay such as "Tabe", ("greetings") and "mala" ("friend, woman").
Little is known about their diet or their place on the island's food-chain, but they could be omnivorous like normal humans, however it is not known if they farm or hunt.
They have a human sacrifices in which they choose one of their women to be given to the giant ape Kong, whom they see as a god. The woman who was chosen was then tied to the altar. Kong will arrive soon afterward, and take her back with him into the jungle.
1933 film[]
In the movie they seem restricted to one side of the wall and also don't seem to be familiar with guns, which they fear, as demonstrated when one was shot to death by Captain Englehorn while attempting to kill Carl Denham, while the rest fled into hiding and again displayed this fear when the Venture team arrived to rescue Ann Darrow.
1976 film[]
2005 film[]
The natives in the 2005 remake are described as a descended from hapless castaways, speculated to be distantly related to Melanesians. This primitive culture had no writing and only the barest of tools to survive, using their own hair as clothing alongside decorations bone and feather. They scraped a living along the barren coastline and lived in the shadow of massive stone wall that kept them separate from the island's most dangerous predators. The most significant aspect of their culture was offering young maidens to King Kong, who they worshiped as a god.
The massive wall and numerous ruins on Skull Island were the only legacy of an ancient unknown civilization that thrived on the island thousands of years prior. This culture was lost to time as the island sank into the sea and the vicious creatures they walled out had breached into their city, killing or forcing them out.
Tie-in[]
In the associated video-game they seem to have a much bigger geographical range as villages and other outposts of their making have been encountered by both the Venture-crew and Kong much farther away from the wall. While they still seem to view Kong as a deity, this doesn't stop them from attacking him, especially if he wanders through their territory. They also seem to have slightly domesticated Venatosaurus as they once tried unleashing a pack of the dromaeosaur on Jack Driscoll, Carl Denham, and Ben Hayes in the hopes to kill them.
Kong: Skull Island[]
The natives in this reboot of the King Kong franchise are also residents of Skull Island and worship Kong like a god but are depicted as Iwis, who are the indigenous people of New Zealand. While behaving like the 1933, 1976, and 2005 versions on account of being tribal and defensive, this version is more relaxed and have befriended people who become stranded on the island. This was the case for Hank Marlow and Gunpei Ikari, whom they help find shelter, and tell their stories.
When Ikari died from a Skullcrawler attack, Marlow kept memories of him and the Iwis helped create a grave and memorial for the soldier. Three decades later, the expeditionists visit Skull Island where the natives attack them until Marlow orders them to halt. Here, they reveal the island's history and the reason they honor Kong: the ape rescued them from monstrous creatures known as Skullcrawlers, and destroyed any planes from dropping bombs because these can awaken the creatures, who have killed Kong's parents, leaving him the last of his kind. They are also known to fear the Skullcrawlers and will not speak of their name.