Again a brilliant show last night!
In next week's program Bruce will visit the Kombai tribe from Papua New Guinea:
Mon 17 Jan, 21:00 - 22:00 60 mins
Kombai
Explorer Bruce Parry is deep in unexplored jungle as he travels to West Papua to meet a tribe rumoured to be cannibals.
The Kombai people are roaming hunter-gatherers who use stone tools and bows and arrows. Bruce finds that a gift of tobacco, and joining the tribe in being naked, makes them more at ease with his presence. Bruce is soon living in a tree house with a family, joining in with their hunts, attempting to go barefoot through the thorny jungle and extracting pulp from a sago palm, the Kombai's staple diet. The biggest surprise is listening to the calm description of how one of his hosts killed and ate 'witches' from another clan, to end the terror of evil spirits