Happy Tycoon

Chapter 563: Rockefeller's skull

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

  Before coming to Papua New Guinea, Yang Jing also made some preparations, so that he has a certain understanding of the entire Irian Island, which naturally includes the famous hunter head clan.

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

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

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

  Because of the barrier of the vast Pacific Ocean, those indigenous people living on the islands of the Southwest Pacific have been living traditional primitive but isolated days for thousands of years, just like in Fiji, there is still a primitive cannibal life.

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

Similarly, many large and small cannibal tribes live in many primitive jungles on the huge Irian Island, but on Irian Island, these cannibal tribes are not called cannibals, they have a more terrifying and loud name— -Headhunters.

On the primitive Ilian Island, there are more than 20,000 primitive people who have little contact with the outside world. When these primitive people fight against each other, they usually take the hunting of the enemy's head as the highest honor. Therefore, these primitive people People are called "Hunter Head Race".

   You can't imagine how brutal and **** the war between these primitives is. Before the war begins, men and women in the tribe will prepare together. First coat the canoe with ochre and lime, and then prepare the various foods for celebration when it is occupied. At this time, the women became cruel and inhumane, encouraging men to fight bravely, killing as many people as possible, and when everything was ready, the men took advantage of the cover of night and took advantage of the small canoe to sneak into each other’s village, regardless of distinction. Men, women and children, the more you kill, the better.

   Their methods of killing were clean and neat, and they would not beg for mercy even after the resistance of the slain was ineffective, because both sides knew that there was no kindness between each other. In the Stone Age, they did not have modern weapons, but a kind of knife called a bamboo knife cut the head not much slower than our modern steel knife.

   After the victor cut off the head, he stripped off his scalp, then used a sharp tool to cover a small hole in his temple, and poured his brain into a stone bowl to drink it.

The victor used every part of the hunted head—the lower jaw was cut open and used as an ornament for the necklace. The skulls were hung in rows and covered with bark in front of the tall houses. At night, they were taken off and used as pillows. .

   These headhunters will not only cut off the heads of the defeated, but also the heads of the normal dead. If you carefully observe the skull hanging in front of the house, you will find that one is quite complete, which is the skull left after a normal death; the other has holes in the temples and lacks the mandible, which is the victory product of the owner's attack.

   This is the origin of the headhunter's name.

Among them, the most famous headhunter tribe is the Asmat tribe living in Indonesia with the tribal centers of Otsjanepu and Omasaipu. This name has also replaced the headhunter tribe, becoming It is synonymous with the hunter head tribe in a broad sense.

   Therefore, nowadays, when it comes to the hunter head tribe living on Irian Island, outsiders usually call them the Asmat tribe. Most of these primitive people live in primitive jungles and have little contact with the outside world. In the area bordering eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, the Asmat region with Otsjanep and Omasep as the core, there are two Asmat tribes with the largest number of people living in these two Asma groups. There are more than 7,000 people in the special tribe, which is the most concentrated area of ​​the hunter head tribe in the entire Irian Island.

In fact, because Otsjanep and Omasaipu are located on the coast, and the number of these two tribes is also the largest among the hunter head tribes, according to common sense, the Asmats of these two tribes are compared As far as the inland people are concerned, they should be more able to get in touch with modern society.

   But it is a pity that, because of the case of cannibalism 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 hunter head tribe of Irian Island.

   The only protagonist in that famous case has a very great surname-Rockefeller.

   Yes, the protagonist hunted by the Asmats is the great-grandson of American oil king John Rockefeller and the son of former New York State Governor and former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller-Michael Rockefeller.

   In 1961, the heir of Standard Oil Company, Michael Rockefeller, accidentally disappeared off the coast of Papua New Guinea. This news shocked the whole country 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 thought.

  Michael Rockefeller was born in 1938 and became a member of the Rockefeller family. His father is the Governor of New York State Nelson Rockefeller, who was also the Vice President of the United States; his great-grandfather John Rockefeller is the richest man in the history of the United States and has a huge oil empire.

  Although Michael's father hopes that he can inherit his father's business and manage the family's huge business assets, Michael himself has 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 is determined to find his own "primitive art". For non-Western art at the time, this term inevitably exudes a sense of superiority. Dedicated to primitive art, Michael easily occupied a place on the board of his father's museum.

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

   Before this, Michael had traveled many times. He had lived in Japan and Venezuela for several months. So in the year he graduated, he wanted to embark on an anthropological expedition.

   After talking with the representative of the National Museum of Ethnology in the Netherlands, Michael decided to go to Dutch New Guinea at the time and collect art from the Asmats who settled there.

   According to subsequent investigations, at that time Michael invited many researchers and documentary filmmakers to join this trip for a journey of discovery and discovery. They came to Otsjanep, the main living place of the Asmats on the island. They not only took a lot of photos here, but also tried to buy Bispiles from the locals, a kind of exquisite carvings. Of wood art, but failed.

   Michael is not discouraged. He continued to observe in depth and found that Asmats seem to have many behaviors that run counter to Western social norms. He even wrote in his diary: "This place is far more remote and wilder than the place I have seen before." Because at this time Michael had already seen the cruel war between the Asmats and saw that they were How to hunt the enemy's head.

   This is Michael's first trip to New Guinea.

   Although he didn't get anything valuable for the first time, it made Michael more eager to try and plan to show his talents. He made a detailed plan to conduct a more detailed study of Asmat's anthropology, and he also planned to display Asmat's artwork in his father's museum.

   On November 19, 1961, Michael and a group of Dutch anthropologists traveled to New Guinea again by boat and approached Otsjanep along the coastline. But their boat overturned twelve miles from the coast. However, according to records, when Michael and the fellow anthropologist said "I think I can", he jumped into the water and disappeared.

   Whether it's the ship overturned or Michael's brain gets into the water, he has to swim through the twelve miles of water. Anyway, the child has just disappeared, and no one is born or dead.

   But after all, this guy has an enviable and indeed 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, nothing was found.

   Michael’s death caused a sensation in the media. Soon, various newspapers began to publish all kinds of rumors that he must have been eaten by cannibals or sharks. There are also rumors that Michael actually escaped from the gilded cage of wealth and is living freely somewhere in the jungle of New Guinea. But no matter what the rumors are, the family heir who was born with the golden key has just disappeared.

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

   Because there were two Dutch missionaries and Asmats living together on the island for many years, and they also spoke the local language. The missionaries told the local authorities that they heard from the Asmats that it was the Asmats who killed Michael.

The following year, in 1962, the police on the island sent Wim van der Wall to investigate the matter~www.readwn.com~ He also came to the same conclusion, and even got Asmart The so-called "Michael's Skull" in the population.

   In fact, Michael's death was a revenge by the Asmats!

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

   In 1957, it was three years before Michael visited the island for the first time. One incident happened this year that left permanent wounds to the people of Otsjanep. At that time, the Dutch colonial government had just taken control of the island and had limited control over the Asmats of remote tribes.

   In that year, a massacre occurred between the two Asmat tribes of Otsjanep and Omasep, and 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 due to a lot of cultural misunderstandings, the Dutch opened fire on the Otsjanep people.

   The Otsjanep people who saw the power of guns for the first time, saw four war chiefs shot dead. This incident also completely led to the hatred of the Asmats towards the whites.

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

   Michael is very unfortunate. The people he met are the descendants of the four tribal war leaders and tribesmen killed by the Dutch.

   Michael’s death was simple, but it made the Asmats completely famous all over the world, and made people all over the world realize that there are still terrifying hunter heads in Ilian Island.

   It is also because of this incident that Yang Jing knew about the Asmart Hunter Head Clan.

  PS: Bow to thank "Breathe Free" 100 for the reward.

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