Hatam

The Hatam are one of the peoples associated with the Arfak Mountains of western New Guinea. Their language is distinct from those of neighbouring communities, while their homelands span mountain and lower-lying country on the Bird's Head Peninsula.

Arfak communities have traditionally combined shifting cultivation with hunting and gathering in the forest. Paths link settlements across the steep terrain, and the coastal areas beyond the mountains have long connected western New Guinea with the islands of eastern Indonesia. Local life and languages developed within this varied landscape.

The later city of Manokwari lies here.