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Under the Mountain Wall - Baliem Valley (pdf)

 

(...) a chronicle of two seasons in the Stone Age.

The few details and episodes not actually witnessed by the

author were supplied and confirmed by other members of

the party—Robert Gardner, cameraman and leader of the

expedition whose film, Dead Birds, concerns the Kurelu;

Karl G. Heider, anthropologist; Jan Broekhuyse, anthropologist; Michael Rockefeller, photographer and sound technician. The expedition was joined by photographer Eliot

Elisofon for the month of May; by botanist Chris Versteegh

for two weeks in June; and by medical student Samuel

Putnam in July and August; it was assisted immeasurably

by the talents and good company of its Dani interpreter,

Abututi, with his wife, Wamoko, and of its cook, Yusip

 

Dead Birds by Robert Gardner (youtube)