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"I am having a thoroughly exhausting but most exciting time here…The Asmat is like a huge puzzle with the variations in ceremony and art style forming the pieces. My trips are enabling me to comprehend (if only in a superficial, rudimentary manner) the nature of this puzzle…"

—Excerpt from a letter from Michael Rockefeller, November 13, 1961
Gerbrands, A. A., Ed. (1967). The Asmat of New Guinea:
The Michael C. Rockefeller Expeditions 1961. New York, NY: The New York Graphic Society

Lone Sentry, PM2006.12.1.100.21 (256-21) Photograph by Michael Rockefeller, Michael Rockefeller: New Guinea Photographs, 1961. Copyright 2006 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.