Archaeo-Histories on Nostr: A Highland New Guinean is shocked to see a white person for the first time in his ...
A Highland New Guinean is shocked to see a white person for the first time in his life, in 1930. Before 1930, Highlanders thought they were the only living people in the world...
''We believed our dead went over there, turned white, and came back as spirits. That's how we explained the white man: our own dead had returned.'' Those were some of his words...
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