The tribesman who Facebook friended me

[Coyotl]

http://www.salon.com/2011/10/13/the_tribesman_who_facebook_friended_me/

... I opened it up, to find that this was no ordinary future friend (from the past) – it was a man I’d met while making a film about a tribe from the Sepik Valley in Papua New Guinea. It was a man who was born and raised in a remote hunter-gatherer society, where, to this day, the women spend their time searching out wild sago palms in the swamps to pulp into flour for pancakes, and the men hunt monstrous saltwater crocodiles in tea-colored jungle rivers at night with nothing more than spears. My new Facebook friend no longer joins these hunts – he’s an elder and has managed to find some income in the embryonic Sepik tourist industry – but for many years he was a hunter-gatherer, and now he’s on Facebook! ......

[Judi Lynn]

1. Unexpected story! Thank you. n/t

[Marrah_G]

2. Oh that is cool!

[Victor_c3]

3. Agree with the guy above - nice and unexpected story n/t