Regarded as one of the most dangerous tribes in the world, the Asmat tribe inhabits the South Papua province of Indonesia, ...

On the morning of Nov. 20, 1961, Michael Rockefeller, the 23-year-old son of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, swam up to a group of Asmat warriors along the southwest coast of New Guinea.

In November 1961, 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller, the son of then-New ... gone there to collect primitive art from the isolated Asmat tribe, whose culture was, until fairly recently, a "mirror ...

Colonialism and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, Carl Hoffmann has written The Lunatic Express and Hunting Warbirds. A journey to the heart of New Guinea’s Asmat tribal ...