Funny Wars

[Juan Cires Martinez]

I remember a spanish photographer that spent the last few years in Papua
living and photographing the native tribes there telling how a war broke
out between two tribes.  He asked for permision and went to the
battlefield with a movie camera.  As he told it, he set up his
equipement in the middle of the battlefield and watched as the two
sides, twenty to thirty warriors each, spent two to three hours
insulting each other.  When they got tired of this, a fight broke out
between a few warriors on either side.  As they passed in front of the
camera in their charge to attack the other side they slowed down and
smiled to the camera.  The final body count was three warriors dead and
a few wounded.

Saludos, Juan.