Word: tribesman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some southerners are still wary of the new-found peace. Said Captain Choi Maror, a Dinka tribesman from Bahr El Ghazal province: "We don't trust those northerners yet. But we must live together. We are not brothers, but we can negotiate. We hear that the Russians and the Americans negotiate together, but do they trust each other? Still, it's better than...
Died. Dick Tiger, 42, the Ibo tribesman who punched his way to the world middleweight and light heavyweight boxing titles; of cancer of the liver; in Aba, Nigeria. Tiger, whose real name was Dick Ihetu, was taught to box by British army officers in Nigeria before he migrated to New York City in 1959. Three years later he knocked out Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer. By 1966 he had moved up a class and took the light heavyweight title from José Torres. After losing the title in 1968 Tiger periodically visited his home to train soldiers for the rebel Biafran...
...curiosity is aroused. In your article on the Tasaday tribe [Oct. 18] you state that these Stone Age people in the Philippines have no metal technology. Of what material, then, are the earrings that a tribesman is wearing in your accompanying photograph...
...invariably lean and telling. Duncan's instinct is for a photographic plain speech that puts all the emphasis where it belongs, on the subject, and almost none on the technique. At its best, this gives his pictures a marvellously laconic poetry, as in the shot of an Afghan tribesman washing his cups by the side of a lake in the Hindu Kush. Or a deserted cottage in Connemara, hemmed and compressed to the edge of survival between two gray bands of sky and tumbled rocks...
...motion shown, but the traveling feeling expressed. When he cuts into portraiture, his character's positions and the bent of their heads tells us much about their relationship. The transition into the next sequence is provided by a fast dissolve from a skyscape to the bottom of another tribesman's well. The image is shocking and apt; if the foregoing scenes emphasized brotherhood, the following ones will depict the narrow hatreds of a divided race...