Hearing Guo Xiaoxiang's words, Yang Jing couldn't help but feel a little numb in his scalp.

Before coming to PNG, Yang Jing also made some preparations, so that he had a certain understanding of the entire Irian Island, which naturally included the famous hunter head clan.

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

Perhaps in many people's minds, 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 primordial tribes are compared with the primitive tribes located on many islands in the southwest Pacific, they have simply entered the modern era.

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

Because of the vast Pacific Ocean, the indigenous people who live on the islands of the southwest Pacific have lived a traditional primitive and isolated life for thousands of years, just like in Fiji, where there is still a primitive cannibal life.

This cannibal is not the kind of cannibal that is casually talked about, it is the real cannibal, they really are - cannibalism!

Similarly, in many of the primeval jungles of the vast island of Irion, there are also large and small cannibal tribes, but on the island of Irian, these cannibal tribes are not called cannibals, they have a more terrifying and loud name - the headhunters.

On the pristine island of Iryan, there are about 20,000 primitive people who have little contact with the outside world, and when these primitive people fight each other, they usually take the highest honor of hunting the heads of their enemies, so these primitive people are called "hunters".

You can't imagine how tragic and bloody the war between these primitive people was. Before the start of the war, the men and women of the tribe would work together to prepare for it. The canoe is coated with ochre and lime, and then the food items used for the celebration are prepared when occupied. By this time, the women had also become inhumane, and men were encouraged to fight bravely, to kill as many people as they could, and when everything was ready, the men took advantage of the cover of night to sneak into each other's villages in small canoes, killing as many men and women as possible.

They kill with a clean and neat manner, and they do not beg for mercy when the resistance of the killed is ineffective, because both sides understand that there is no mercy to each other. In the Stone Age, they did not have modern weapons, but a knife called a bamboo knife was not much slower than our modern steel knife to cut off a person's head.

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

The victors put every part of the hunted head to good use - the jaw was cut open and used as an ornament for necklaces, the skulls were hung in rows of bark in front of the stilted houses, and at night, plucked off to be used as pillows.

These headhunters will not only cut off the heads of the vanquished, but also the heads of those who have died normally. A closer look at the skulls hanging in front of the house reveals that one is quite complete, the skull left after a normal death, and the other has a hole in the temple, missing the mandible, which is the victory of the master's attack.

This is where the name of the headhunter comes from.

Among them, the most famous headhunter clan is the Asmat tribe living in Indonesia, with the two regions of Otsijanep and Omasaipu as the tribal center, and this name has also replaced the hunter head tribe and has become synonymous with the hunter head tribe in a broad sense.

Therefore, when it comes to the Hunter Heads living on Irian Island, outsiders usually refer to them as Asmat. Most of these hominids live in primeval jungles and have little contact with the outside world. In the eastern part of Indonesia bordering PNG, the Asmat region with Otsjanep and Omasaip as the core is home to the two largest groups of Asmat, with a total of more than 7,000 people, making them the most concentrated area of hunter heads on the entire Irian Island.

In fact, because Otjanep and Omasep are both located on the coast, and these two tribes are also the largest in number among the hunters, it is common sense that the Asmat people of these two tribes have more contact with modern society than their inland tribesmen.

But unfortunately, because of the cannibalism case that almost caused a sensation in the world more than half a century ago, the Asmat people completely became famous all over the world, and eventually became synonymous with the hunter head clan 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 John Rockefeller, the American oil king, and the son of Nelson Rockefeller, the former governor of New York and former vice president.

In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, the heiress of Standard Oil, accidentally disappeared off the coast of Papua New Guinea, shocking the country and the world. It wasn't until half a century later that it became known 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 Vice President of the United States, and his great-grandfather, John Rockefeller, was the richest American man of all time, with a vast oil empire.

While Michael's father wanted him to follow in his father's footsteps and manage the family's vast business assets, Michael himself had a quieter, more artistic soul. When he graduated from Harvard in 1960, he wanted to do something more exciting than being a director and sitting in an office for meetings.

He was determined to find his own "primitive art". For the non-Western art of the time, the term inevitably exuded a hint of superiority. Devoting himself to primitive art, Michael comfortably took his place on the board of directors of his father's museum.

At the time, Michael said, "I just want to do something that I haven't done before, and get more art to New York." ”

Prior to this, Michael had traveled far and wide, and had lived in Ben and Venezuela for several months. So the year he graduated, he wanted to embark on an anthropological expedition.

After talking to representatives of the National Museum of Ethnology in the Netherlands, Michael decided to travel to what was then Dutch New Guinea to collect art from the Asmats who had settled there.

According to later research, Michael invited a number of researchers and documentary filmmakers to join the trip for a journey of discovery. They traveled to Otsjanep, the island's main gathering place for the Asmat people, where they not only took many photographs, but also tried to buy the Bisz, a beautifully carved wooden artwork, from the locals, but were unsuccessful.

Michael wasn't discouraged. He continued to look deeper and found that the Asmats seemed to have a lot of behavior that was contrary to Western social norms. He even wrote in his diary: "This place is more remote and wilder than what I've seen before." By this time, Michael had seen the brutal war between the Asmats, and how they hunted the heads of their enemies.

It was Michael's first trip to New Guinea.

Although he didn't get anything of value for the first time, it made Michael even more eager to try it out and make it happen. He developed an exhaustive plan for a more detailed anthropological study of Asmat, and he also intended to display Asmat's artwork in his father's museum.

On November 19, 1961, Michael and a group of Dutch anthropologists sailed again to New Guinea and approached Ottsjanep along the coastline. But their boat capsized twelve miles from the coast. However, it is recorded that Michael said to his fellow anthropologist that "I think I can [swim over)" and jumped into the water and disappeared.

Whether the boat capsized or Michael's brain got into the water, he had to swim through the twelve miles of water, and the child was missing anyway, and there was no one alive or dead.

But after all, this guy has an enviable and indeed extremely powerful family background, 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, I found nothing.

Michael's death caused a stir in the media world. Soon, various newspapers began to publish rumors that he must have been eaten by cannibals or sharks. Rumor has it that Michael has actually escaped the gilded cage of wealth and is living freely somewhere in the jungle of New Guinea. But whatever the rumors, the heir of the family who was born with a golden key disappeared.

However, according to later investigations, people finally figured out why the guy disappeared. He wasn't eaten by sharks, but he was actually headhunted by the Asmats.

At that time, there were two Dutch missionaries on the island, who had lived with the Asmats for many years and spoke the local language. The missionaries told the local authorities that they had heard from the Asmats that it was the Asmats who killed Michael.

The following year, in 1962, the island's police sent Wim van der Wall to investigate the matter, and he came to the same conclusion, even obtaining what Asmat called "Michael's skull".

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

The root cause of this incident was the Dutch colonial government at the time.

In 1957, three years before Michael's first visit to the island. This was the year when an incident occurred that left a permanent scar on the people of Otsjanep. At the time, the Dutch colonial government was just beginning to control the island, with limited control over the Asmats, a remote tribe.

That year, there was a massacre between the two Asmat tribes, Otsjanep and Omasepp, in which dozens of people were killed on both sides. At that time, the Dutch colonial government tried to control the situation, hoping to appease the anger of the Otsjanep tribe. But due to a whole bunch of cultural misunderstandings, the Dutch opened fire on the Otsjanep.

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

It was in this context that the people of Otsjanep stumbled upon Michael swimming towards the coast bordering their fiefdom......

Unfortunately for Michael, the people he met were the descendants of the four tribal war leaders and clansmen who had been killed by the Dutch.

Michael's death was simple, but it made the Asmats completely famous all over the world, and made the whole world realize that there was a terrifying hunter head in the island of Irian.

It was also because of this incident that Yang Jing learned about the Asmat Hunter Clan.

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