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With the help of Blit interpreters, whose language is distantly akin to Tasaday, communication slowly began. The primitives had no weapons, no agriculture, no art, no religion, no words for bad, enemy, war or kill. For good and beautiful they used the same term, mafeon. They loved the jungle; open country was "where the eye sees too far." Happiness flooded their lives. They laughed and hugged and nuzzled by the hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Primitive Art | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

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