Roy Villevoye: Propeller

Roy Villevoye had been traveling to Asmat, a remote swampland in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, for ten years, where he heard a strange story of a propeller in the forest. Here, in a photographic companion book to his film, he unravels the mystery by both hearing the traditional tale from a tribal elder and interviewing the Dutch World War II pilot whose emergency landing put him in a frightening confrontation with the headhunting Asmat warriors.

cm 12×18; pp. 52; COL; hardcover. Publisher: Artimo Foundation, Amsterdam, 2004.

ISBN: 9789085460046| 9085460042

ID: 16674

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Roy Villevoye had been traveling to Asmat, a remote swampland in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, for ten years, where he heard a strange story of a propeller in the forest. Here, in a photographic companion book to his film, he unravels the mystery by both hearing the traditional tale from a tribal elder and interviewing the Dutch World War II pilot whose emergency landing put him in a frightening confrontation with the headhunting Asmat warriors.

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