Happy Tycoon

Hearing Guo Xiaoxiang's words, Yang Jing couldn't help feeling his scalp tingle.

Before coming to Papua New Guinea, Yang Jing also made some preparations, so that he had a certain understanding of the whole Irian Island, which naturally included the famous headhunters.

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

Perhaps in the minds of many people, the real primitive tribes are all in Africa, but in fact, although there are some primitive tribes in some extremely remote areas of Africa, if these African primitive tribes are the same as the primitive tribes located on many islands in the Southwest Pacific In comparison, they have simply entered the modern era.

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

Because of the barrier of the vast Pacific Ocean, the aborigines living on the islands in the southwest Pacific have been living a traditional, primitive and isolated life for thousands of years, just like Fiji, where primitive cannibals still live.

This kind of cannibals is not the kind of cannibals that are casually talked about in novels, they are real cannibals, they really are-cannibals!

Similarly, in many primitive jungles of 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 famous name—— —Headhunters.

On the primitive Irian Island, there are more than 20,000 primitive people who have little contact with the outside world. When these primitive people go to war with each other, they usually take hunting the enemy's head as the highest honor, so these primitive people People are called headhunters.

You can't imagine how brutal and bloody the war between these primitive people was. Before the war begins, the men and women of the tribe work together to prepare for it. The canoe is first painted with ocher and lime, and various foods are prepared for the celebration of occupancy. At this time, women also become brutal and inhumane, encouraging men to fight bravely and kill as many people as possible. When everything is ready, the men will take advantage of the cover of night and sneak into each other's villages in small canoes. Men, women, young and old, the more you kill, the better.

They killed people cleanly and neatly, and they didn't beg for mercy after their resistance was invalid, because both parties knew that there was no kindness to each other. They didn't have modern weapons in the Stone Age, but a kind of knife called a bamboo knife cut off a person's head not much slower than our modern steel knife.

After the victor cuts off the head, he first peels off the scalp, then uses a sharp weapon to cover a small hole in the temple, and pours the brains into a stone bowl to drink.

The victor puts every part of his head to use—the jaws are cut open for necklaces, the skulls are hung in rows of bark over the doors of tall houses, and at night they are taken off for pillows. .

These headhunters not only cut off the heads of the defeated, but also the heads of those who died normally. Careful observation of the skulls hanging in front of the house reveals that: one is quite complete, which is the skull left after a normal death; the other has holes in the temple and lacks the mandible, which is the victory prize of the owner's attack.

This is the origin of the name of the headhunters.

Among them, the most famous headhunting tribe is the Asmat tribe living in Indonesia, with Ozjanep and Omasepu as the tribal centers, and this name has also replaced the headhunting tribe and became It is synonymous with headhunters in a broad sense.

Therefore, when it comes to the headhunters living on Irian Island, outsiders usually call them the Asmat tribe. Most of these primitive people live in primeval forests and have little contact with the outside world. In the area bordering eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, in the Asmat area centered on Otsjanep and Omaseip, there are two groups of Asmat people with the largest population. There are more than 7,000 Te tribes, which is the most concentrated area of ​​headhunters in the entire Irian Island.

In fact, because Ozjanep and Omasaipu are both located on the coast, and the number of these two tribes is also the largest among the headhunters, so according to common sense, the Asmats of these two tribes are compared For the tribes in the inland areas, they have better access to modern society.

But it is a pity that 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 headhunters of Irian Island.

The only protagonist in that famous case had a very great surname—Rockefeller.

That's right, the protagonist who was hunted down by the Asmat tribe was Michael Rockefeller, the great-grandson of John Rockefeller, the king of oil in the United States, the son of former New York State Governor and former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.

When Standard Oil heir Michael Rockefeller disappeared off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 1961, the news shocked the nation and the world. It was not until half a century later that people knew that the real fate of this rich generation was far more shocking than people imagined.

Michael Rockefeller was born in 1938 and became a member of the Rockefeller family. His father was Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York State, who also served as the vice president of the United States; his great-grandfather John Rockefeller was the richest man in the history of the United States and owned a huge oil empire.

Although Michael's father hoped that he would 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 sitting in an office meeting.

He was determined to find his primitive art. For non-Western art at the time, the term inevitably exudes a tinge of superiority. Dedicated to primitive art, Michael easily took a seat on the board of his father's museum.

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

Prior to this, Michael had traveled far and wide. He had lived in Japan and Venezuela for several months. So in the year of his graduation, he wanted to embark on an anthropological investigation.

After speaking with representatives of the Dutch National Museum of Ethnology, Michael decided to travel to what was then Dutch New Guinea to collect art from the Asmat people who had settled there.

According to subsequent investigations, Michael invited many researchers and documentary filmmakers to join the trip for a journey of discovery. During their trip, they came to Ozjanep, the main living gathering place of the Asmat people on the island. They not only took a lot of photos here, but also tried to buy Bis pillars from the locals - a beautifully carved wooden artwork, but was unsuccessful.

Michael was not discouraged by this. He continued to look deeper and found that many behaviors of the Asmat seemed to run counter to the norms of Western society. He even wrote in his diary: This place is more remote and wild than the places I have seen before. Because at this time Michael had seen the brutal war between the Asmats, and he had also seen how they were How to hunt the enemy's head.

This is Michael's first trip to New Guinea.

Although he didn't get anything of value for the first time, it made Michael more eager to try and plan to show his skills. He drew up an elaborate plan for a more detailed anthropological study of the Asmat, and he planned to exhibit Asmat art in his father's museum.

On November 19, 1961, Michael and a group of Dutch anthropologists sailed again to New Guinea and approached Otsjanep along the coast. But their boat capsized twelve miles from shore. However, according to records, Michael and his fellow anthropologists said I think I can (swim over) and then jumped into the water and disappeared.

Whether it was the capsizing of the boat or Michael's mind getting flooded and trying to swim the twelve miles of water, the kid was just missing, alive or dead.

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

Michael's death caused a stir in the media world. Soon the newspapers were running all kinds of rumors that he must have been eaten by cannibals or sharks. Other rumors suggested that Michael had escaped the gilded cage of wealth and was living free somewhere in the New Guinea jungle. But no matter what the rumors were, the heir to the family who was born with a golden key in his mouth just disappeared.

However, according to subsequent investigations, people finally figured out why this guy disappeared. He was not eaten by sharks, but actually headhunted by Asmats.

Because at that time, there were two Dutch missionaries on the island who had lived with the Asmat people for many years and could speak the local language. The missionaries told local authorities that they had heard from the Asmat that it was the Asmat who had killed Michael.

The following year, in 1962, the police on the island sent Wim van der Wall to investigate the matter. He also came to the same conclusion, and even obtained the so-called Michael from the Asmat population. skull.

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

The root cause of this incident still lies in the Dutch colonial government at that time.

It was 1957, three years before Michael's first visit to the island. There was an incident that year that left a permanent scar on the people of Otzjanep. At that time, the Dutch colonial government had just taken control of the island and had limited control over the remote tribes of the Asmat.

That year, there was a massacre between the two Asmat tribes of Ozjanep and Omasep, in which 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 Otsjanep tribe. But because of a whole bunch of cultural misunderstandings, the Dutch opened fire on the Otsjaneps.

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

It was in these circumstances that Otsjanep's men stumbled upon Michael swimming towards the coast bordering their domain.

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

Michael's death was very simple, but it made the Asmat people famous all over the world, and made people all over the world realize that there are still terrifying headhunters in Irian Island.

It was also because of this incident that Yang Jing knew about the Asmat headhunters.

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