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Television

Jaw-dropping: My Year with the Tribe reviewed

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

For a while now, the Korowai people of Western Papua have been the go-to primitive tribe for documentary-makers. The Korowai were unknown to the outside world until the 1970s — but they’ve certainly made up for it since, with their Stone Age tools, jungle treehouses and penis gourds becoming almost as familiar to TV viewers as Brian Cox on top of a mountain.

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