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A Highland New Guinean is shocked to see a white person for the first time in his life. Before 1930, Highlanders though they were the only living person in the world
A Highland New Guinean is shocked to see a white person for the first time in his life. Before 1930, Highlanders though they were the only living person in the world This photo was taken by the Leahy Brothers, who were exploring the interior regions of Papua New Guinea. They stumbled upon the Highland New Guineans, who lived on the mountains and were completely isolated. You can learn more about this in a documentary film called 'First Contact'. The authors of the documentary interviewed the people who participated in that first meeting. One of the Papuans interviewed says: "At first, when we saw them all pale, we thought they were the spirits of our ancestors, who had come from the beyond to bring us a message. One day we saw one of them go to shit; there we realized that they were not spirits, but normal people, like us"..] Additional Interesting Story: In WW2, an American plane was doing a sightseeing run through this same valley, and crashed. Three people survived...