Funny Wars

[Ted Samsel]

A-and if you've taken any amount of Anthro, you've surely seen
DEAD BIRDS, about tribal warfare in Upland Nuigini.
> 
> 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.

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net  *1997* Centennial of Bram Stoker's DRACULA
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