Tribe in Papua New Guinea meets white man for the first time. Filmed in 1976.

[Quixote1818]

This is mesmerizing to watch!

[freshwest]

1. Beautiful. But it may not be long before they say, 'there goes the neighborhood.'

He was very fortunate that the natives were so open and accepting of him, very generous.

[jkirch]

2. Thanks.

Very enjoyable viewing. I wish there was more!

[Shankapotomus]

3. There is more

part 2:

part 3:

[lovemydog]

4. Wow, that's mind-blowing to watch.

Thanks for sharing. I can't imagine what that must have been like, both for the tribal people and for the explorers. Riveting. I'll come back and watch part 2 tomorrow.

[ErikJ]

5. Very brave. I would think they would have used another New Guinean to ease the transition

[NickP]

6. Wow.

I cannot begin to find words on how utterly amazing this is to watch. Thank you for posting.

[southernyankeebelle]

14. Boy I second you. I thought the very same thing. It was so interesting to see. I wish

we have more programs like this. Maybe americans would appreciate what we have such as the importance of salt and a match.

[jberryhill]

7. I had the same feeling the first time I met a French person too!

[David__77]

8. I wonder if this is a hoax, as some anthropologists think.

There's a long journal article exploring this case: http://terrain.revues.org/pdf/2820

Unfortunately, it's in French. But an excerpt, roughly translated: "Brought to taste matches, to spit out the rice and frightened of his own image in a mirror, the main actor in this sketch devoted to the authentic told me crying shame. The Toulambis could only follow the letter directing the parties Papuan guides to meet them dictated to them by their own vision of the Stone Age. Have hidden their metal tools and removed their belts of beads and plastic pieces of European clothes they wore, they are bent to orders on behalf of the nurses who had earlier spread the news of their "discovery" . Who lives in four days walk from the nearest clinics in a region of endemic malaria, a little quinine is well worth a good joke. "

[Lucky Luciano]

9. will check later. seems interesting! nt

[yellerpup]

10. Fascinating.

I watched all three. Riveting.

[excringency]

11. The video of Part 4 contains

scenes of the following day where the tribe lost voting rights through voter suppression. A white judge from Maine couldn't believe all of those Black people were voting.

[slackmaster]

12. Beautiful. This must be the basis of the Molombo Tribe scene in the movie Airplane.

[plcdude]

13. Thanks for sharing

I lived in the central highlands of PNG from 1973 to 1980 and had similar experiences in the Lai River Valley.