Tribe meets white people for the first time (1976)

[xes]

This is a great little video, filmed in 1976. A tribe in Papua New Guinea meet white people, and their food/equiptment for the first time. I love how at first, they're scared and warey. But by the end they're eating white man food and checking out all their stuff.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=305_1308772777

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I did an internet search and couldn't find any information.

It would be interesting to know if this group still exists (assuming the film is real). My guess is either they don't or they live in concrete refugee housing or are exploited by illegal loggers.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

They will almost certainly have been keeping an eye on said white people for some time before they actually met.

Probably fucked now, as yw says.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

This is a great little video, filmed in 1976. A tribe in Papua New Guinea meet white people, and their food/equiptment for the first time. I love how at first, they're scared and warey. But by the end they're eating white man food and checking out all their stuff.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=305_1308772777

I watched the whole tedious bloody thing, and endured the dreadful, dreadful music, waiting for the cannibalism that I understood you to be promising.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I watched the whole tedious bloody thing, and endured the dreadful, dreadful music, waiting for the cannibalism that I understood you to be promising.

If you want to see cannibalism you have to go lurk in P&P.

 

[xes]

Yes lbj I presume that they'd have been informed that they were coming by the guides who took them in, and you can bet yer arse that they'd have been watching. And agreed with Yuwipi Woman, they're probably being exploited to shit and back.

When he put the leaf over the mirror, pulled it back and got a fright. That made me giggle.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I found it fascinating, & oddly moving.

 

[quimcunx]

Fabulous film. The mirror bit was great. 35 years ago. A lot of them would be dead by now anyway I'd think, depending on what their life expectancy was.

I liked the guy who was singing at the end. He was cute.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Meanwhile, another incredible story is developing in San Francisco Bay:

 

[stuff_it]

This is a great little video, filmed in 1976. A tribe in Papua New Guinea meet white people, and their food/equiptment for the first time. I love how at first, they're scared and warey. But by the end they're eating white man food and checking out all their stuff.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=305_1308772777

....catching their diseases...

 

[IC3D]

I watched it and found it very moving but it raises an interesting moral issue. If you found a tribe like this now and had the power to isolate them to preserve their way of life in a goldfish bowl would you? or would you beckon them into a world of shit where they will be the bottom of the heap of seven billion people.

 

[8115]

I think there's probably a middle way.

 

[Steel Icarus]

35 years ago.

Shit. I saw 1976 and still automatically think "that's about 15, possibly 20 years ago".

 

[camouflage]

I watched it and found it very moving but it raises an interesting moral issue. If you found a tribe like this now and had the power to isolate them to preserve their way of life in a goldfish bowl would you? or would you beckon them into a world of shit where they will be the bottom of the heap of seven billion people.

Putting it like that, bottom of a heap of 7 billion, the answer would seem to be an obvious no. But frankly I reckon people deserve to know as much as possible about the world, how would you like it if you were purposely cut-off from everything. No one wants to live in a goldfish bowl, I don't think having your economic and social rights maintained should only be possible if you are effectively shunned by the rest of humankind.

I thought this thread was about this by the way...

 

[ddraig]

that one was bollocks tho weren't it?

 

[IC3D]

I wonder how much a society can dictate a tribes fate and be able to make a good decision personally I would like to go back a few generations but I also love technology and health care and to an extent social security but my heart tells me nature will take it back at some point.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Is no one at all curious why this 35 year old footage only appeared on the internet yesterday?

 

[camouflage]

Just watched the OP link, really touching and heartwarming. Was striking how they didn't seem to get the handshake thing at first, and fascinating to wander what knocking the back of your head with your hand means in their culture... something to do with "hmm, yum, not bad" I think.

 

[lizzieloo]

This is a great little video, filmed in 1976. A tribe in Papua New Guinea meet white people, and their food/equiptment for the first time. I love how at first, they're scared and warey. But by the end they're eating white man food and checking out all their stuff.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=305_1308772777

I think that's amazing.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

According to this German site, the recording was made in 1993.

http://translate.google.ca/translat...official&channel=s&biw=1920&bih=941&prmd=ivns

 

[lizzieloo]

Is no one at all curious why this 35 year old footage only appeared on the internet yesterday?

I'm pretty curious to know why some folk have to be so bloody cynical.

"I know, I'll rip it to bits "

 

[quimcunx]

According to this German site, the recording was made in 1993.

http://translate.google.ca/translat...official&channel=s&biw=1920&bih=941&prmd=ivns

It's true because I want it to be true. 1993/1976 is just chinese whispers.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'm pretty curious to know why some folk have to be so bloody cynical.

"I know, I'll rip it to bits "

I had the same question, but from a different angle: 'why some folk are so bloody naive.'

The world is full of fascinating things. At the same time, the internet is also full of faked news stories clips etc.


You might call it cynicism, but to me, it seems odd when footage of a lost tribe, apparently made 35 years ago, suddenly goes viral on June 23, 2011; and the video has the clarity of digital, as opposed to the look of footage shot on film, as it was in 1976. And why does the first dude across the river keep staring into the video camera lens? He's never seen a camera before: to him, it would look like a black rock on a stick. Why would he know to look into the lens?

Maybe I am cynical, but everything about that video seems wrong.

 

[lizzieloo]

I had the same question, but from a different angle: 'why some folk are so bloody naive.'

The world is full of fascinating things. At the same time, the internet is also full of faked news stories clips etc.

So what? novels are made up, lots of them are good.

 

[IC3D]

Is no one at all curious why this 35 year old footage only appeared on the internet yesterday?

Some old French hippy into the pathos of hackneyed 90's world music and videos of half naked black people uploaded it.

 

[lizzieloo]

It's quite an elabourate hoax

http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2011/06/tribe-meets-white-man-for-first-time.html

http://jpdutilleux.com/film.html

 

[lizzieloo]

Miserable fuckers.

 

[Yossarian]

The world is full of fascinating things. At the same time, the internet is also full of faked news stories clips etc.

If the clip was produced by hoaxers, they've worked pretty hard on their backstory...

http://www.jpdutilleux.com/film.html

 

[quimcunx]

It's true because I want it to be true.

1993/1976 is just internet chinese whispers.

 

[Strumpet]

Miserable fuckers.

Innit.

I thought it was amazing too I loooved their reactions when eating the food!