Song of the Mamuna Tribe of South Papua
Song of the Mamuna Tribe of South Papua
This is just a snippet, there’s more if you like. It is original and has not been spoilt by western ideas of what music should sound like. It also offers a touching view of the natural environment the Mamunas still enjoy. Recently a YouTuber named Drew Binsky visited Papua New Guinea in search of the remote civilisations in the deep jungle. According to the internets – Wiki, mostly – the tribes in this jungle have extremely infrequent contact with the outside world. Before the late 1970’s, they had nonwe – for over 65,000 years Drew Binsky stayed with the Mamuna Tribe for two days and made a half-hour long documentary about his experience getting there, meeting them, and what their world is like.
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