Word: baliem
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...months in Baliem Valley, the Harvard expedition filmed the natives-and aroused missionaries and Dutch district officers, who complained that the U.S. scientists were stirring the headhunters into tribal warfare to film the battles. The Hague dispatched a parliamentary commission to investigate. It decided that the government invitation to the expedition had been unwise. Said its report: "It was known to the authorities that the leader of the expedition was very keen on filming tribal warfare. In the first two months after the arrival of the expedition, there were about seven deaths and a dozen or more wounded...
...anthropological expedition to unmapped jungles of Netherlands New Guinea, Michael Rockefeller, 22-year-old son of the New York Governor, peered through his horn-rimmed glasses and spotted a band of Willigiman-Wallalua warriors. Weeks later, the wanderlusting Harvard alumnus was still in his Baliem Valley element, excitedly filming "an area of the world and people never photographed before" and carrying out his special expedition mission: recording the off-beat music of the bellicose Willigiman-Wallalua, a harmonic grinding of teeth, backed by contrapuntal hoots and rumbles...
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