The Asmat people were particularly talented in woodcarving, decorating elaborate spirit masks and ancestor "bisj" poles. Despite their artistic beauty, they were also known for headhunting and ...

Nearly two thousand objects are on display, from the towering bis, or ancestor poles, of the Asmat—collected by Michael C. Rockefeller on an anthropological expedition to Dutch New Guinea, where ...

After the travel party’s homemade catamaran flipped, leaving the group to drift in the ocean for over 24 hours, Rockefeller strapped empty gasoline cans to his waist and swam for help. "Michael ...

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