When Yang Jing heard Guo Xiaoxiang's words, he couldn't help but feel a little numb.

Before coming to Papua New Guinea, Yang Jing also made some preparations, which allowed him to have a certain understanding of the entire Irian Island, which naturally also included the famous hunter leader.

Although it is the second decade of the 21st century, there are still some very primitive tribes on this planet. This primitive is not a casual primitive, but a real primitive.

Perhaps in the minds of many people, the real primitive tribes are in Africa. But in fact, although there are some primitive tribes in some extremely remote areas of Africa, these African raw stone tribes have entered the modern era compared with the primitive tribes located on many islands in the southwest Pacific.

In this world, the real primitive tribes are not in Africa, but on a series of islands of large and small in the southwestern Pacific.

Due to the vast Pacific Ocean, the natives living on the islands of the southwestern Pacific have lived a traditional primitive and isolated life for thousands of years, just as if in Fiji, they still have a primitive cannibal life.

This kind of cannibal is not the cannibal that is casually talked about in novels. It is the real cannibal. They are really - cannibals!

Similarly, in many primitive jungles on the huge Irian Island, there are also large and small cannibal tribes living, but on Irian Island, these cannibal tribes are not called cannibals. They have a more terrifying and resounding name - the headhunters.

On the primitive Irian Island, there are about 20,000 primitive people who have very little contact with the outside world. When these primitive people fight each other, they usually take the highest honor to hunt the enemy's heads, so these primitive people are called the "hunter heads".

You can't imagine how tragic and bloody the war between these primitive people was. Before the war began, men and women in the tribe would work together to prepare. First apply ochre and lime to the canoe, and then prepare various foods for celebrating. At this time, women became inhumane, encouraging men to fight bravely and kill as many people as possible. When everything was prepared, the men would take advantage of the cover of the night to sneak into each other's villages, regardless of men, women, young and old, the better.

Their methods of killing were neat and neat, and the rebellion they were killed did not beg for mercy after they were ineffective, because both sides knew that there was no kindness between them. In the Stone Age, they did not have modern weapons, but a knife called a bamboo knife cut off human heads is no longer slower than our modern steel knife.

After the winner cut off the head, he first stripped off his scalp, then used a sharp weapon to cover a small hole in his temple, and poured his brain marrow into a stone bowl to drink it.

The winner used every part of the hunted head - the jaw was cut open and used as a decoration for necklaces, and the skull was hung in rows of bark to cover the door of the tall house with bark. At night, it was picked as a pillow.

These headhunters not only cut off the heads of the losers, but also the heads of the normal dead will be cut off. Carefully observe the skull hanging in front of the house and will find that one is quite complete, which is the skull left after normal death; the other is the skull with holes in the temple and lacks the jawbone, which is the victory product that the master attacks.

This is the origin of the headhunter name.

Among them, the most famous headhunters are the Asmat tribes, which live in Indonesia, with Otzjanep and Omasaip as the tribe center. This name also replaces the headhunter and becomes synonymous with the headhunter in a broad sense.

Therefore, when it comes to the hunter heads living on Irian Island, outsiders usually call them Asmats. Most of these primitive people live in primitive jungles and have almost no contact with the outside world. In the area bordering eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guineap and Omasaip as the core, there are two Asmats with the largest number of people living in the Asmats. These two Asmats have a total of more than 7,000 people, which is the most concentrated area of ​​the hunter heads in the entire Irian Island.

In fact, because Otzjanep and Omasaip are both in the coastal position, and the number of people in these two tribes is the largest among the hunter head tribes, so according to common sense, the Asmats of these two tribes are more in contact with modern society than those inland tribes.

But unfortunately, because of the cannibal case that almost caused a sensation in the world more than half a century ago, the Asmat tribe became famous all over the world and eventually became synonymous with the hunter head tribe on Irian Island.

The only protagonist in that famous case has a very great surname - Rockefeller.

That's right, the protagonist who was hunted by the Asmats was Michael Rockefeller, the great-grandson of the American oil king John Rockefeller, the son of former New York governor and former vice president Nelson Rockefeller.

In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, the heir of Standard Oil, unexpectedly disappeared from the coast of Papua New Guinea. The news shocked the whole country and the world. It was not until half a century later that people realized that the true fate of this "rich generation" was far more shocking than people thought.

Michael Rockefeller was born in 1938 and became a member of the Rockefeller family. His father was New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who was also the vice president of the United States; his great-grandfather John Rockefeller was the richest American richest man ever, with a huge oil empire.

Although Michael's father hoped that he could inherit his father's business and manage the family's huge business assets, Michael himself had a quieter and more artistic soul. In 1960, he graduated from Harvard University and wanted to do something more exciting than being a director and having an office meeting.

He was determined to find his own "primitive art". For non-Western art at the time, the term inevitably exuded a sense of superiority. Michael, who devoted himself to primitive art, easily occupied a place on the board of directors of his father's museum.

At that time, Michael once said: "I just want to do something I haven't done before and collect more artworks into New York."

Before this, Michael had traveled many times, and he had lived in Japan and Venezuela for several months. So in the year he graduated, he wanted to embark on an anthropological investigation.

After talking with representatives of the Dutch National Museum of Ethnology, Michael decided to go to the then Dutch New Guinea to collect art from the Asmatites who settled there.

According to later investigations, Michael invited many researchers and documentary filmmakers to join the trip for an exploration and discovery journey. They came to Otzjanep, the main life gathering place of Asmats on the island. They not only took a lot of photos here, but also tried to buy Biscopins, a beautifully carved wooden artwork from the locals, but failed.

Michael was not discouraged. He continued to observe in depth and found that many behaviors of the Asmats seemed to run contrary to Western social norms. He even wrote in his diary: "This place is more remote and wilder than the places I have seen before." Because at this time Michael had seen the cruel war between the Asmats and how they hunted the enemy's heads.

This is Michael's first trip to New Guinea.

Although he did not get anything valuable for the first time, Michael became more eager to try and planned to show his skills. He formulated a detailed plan to conduct more detailed research on Asmat's anthropology, and he also planned to display Asmat's artwork in his father's museum.

On November 19, 1961, Michael and a group of Dutch anthropologists came to New Guinea again on a boat and approached Otzjanep along the coastline. However, their ships overturned twelve miles from the coast. However, according to records, Michael said to his fellow anthropologists at that time, "I think I can (swim over)" and jumped into the water and disappeared.

Whether it was the boat capsized or Michael had to swim through the twelve miles of water, the child was missing, and he would never see anyone in his life or die.

But this guy has an enviable and powerful family background after all, so when he disappeared, the entire Rockefeller family mobilized all their strength to search for Michael's traces. But after searching for half a month, nothing was found.

Michael's death caused a sensation in the media. Soon, newspapers began to publish various rumors that he must have been eaten by cannibals or sharks. There are also rumors that Michael actually escaped the gilded cage of wealth and was living freely in the jungle of New Guinea. But no matter what the rumors were, the heir of the family, who was born with a golden key, disappeared like this.

However, according to later investigations, people finally figured out why this guy disappeared. He was not eaten by the shark, but was actually hunted by the Asmats.

Because there were two Dutch missionaries and Asmats on the island for many years and could speak the local language. The missionaries told the local authorities that they heard from the Asmats that it was the Asmats who killed Michael.

The following year, in 1962, the police on the island sent Wym Van De Wall to investigate the matter, and he came to the same conclusion and even obtained the so-called "Michael's skull" in Asmat's population.

In fact, Michael's killing was a revenge by the Asmats!

The fundamental reason for this incident was the Dutch colonial government at that time.

In 1957, three years before Michael's first visit to the island, something happened this year, leaving permanent trauma to Otzjanep's people. At that time, the Dutch colonial government had just controlled the island and had limited control over the Asmats of the remote tribes.

That year, a massacre occurred between the two Asmat tribes of Otzjanep and Omasep, and dozens of people were killed on both sides. At that time, the Dutch colonial government tried to control the situation, hoping to calm the anger of the Otzjanep tribe. However, due to a lot of cultural misunderstandings, the Dutch opened fire on the Otzjanep people.

The Otzjanap people, who had seen the power of guns for the first time, saw four war leaders being shot and killed. This incident also completely led to the Asmats hatred of white people.

It was in this case that Otzjanep's men stumbled upon Michael swimming towards the coast that bordered their territory...

Unfortunately, Michael met these people in the descendants of four tribal war leaders and tribe members who were killed by the Dutch.

Michael's death was simple, but it made the Asmats completely famous all over the world, making people all over the world realize that there were actually terrifying hunter heads in Irion Island.

It was because of this that Yang Jing learned about the Asmat Hunter Head Clan.
Chapter completed!