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Weyak Dead Birds
Dead Birds is an effective and informative 1964 documentary by Robert Gardner about the Dani people of New Guinea with neolithic culture. “There is a fable told by mountain people of highlands of New Guinea about a contest between a bird and a snake to determine if men will be like birds and die or like snakes shed their skin and have eternal life. The bird won the contest and from that time all men like birds must die.” Deads birds is mainly about two characters Weyak ( means wrong) and Pua, a father and son. Weyak is a warrior and leads
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