The late explorer and filmmaker Lewis Cotlow (Jungle Headhunters) produced and directed this 1961 proto-mondo movie filmed during an expedition in Papua, New Guinea. Released by sketchy Excelsior Pictures, Cotlow's film consists of him and his crew, accompanied by patrol officers and local cops, mingling with tribes living along the Sepik River in an attempt to document their "stone age" customs and rituals. The brazen grindhouse appeal of the film's campaign challenged its dubious ethnographic pretensions. Cotlow willed his collection, including this and other films, to the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, which in turn donated them to the currently-shuttered Library of Congress.
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