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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