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...Gardner led an expedition to New Guinea to study and photograph the Willigiman-Wallalua natives. It was after this expedition that Michael Rockefeller '60 lost his life while collecting art for the Museum of Primitive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frontiers of Film Making | 5/22/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 14, 1961 | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

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