Friday, December 6, 2013

A Chance Encounter At The Stone Age


In 1968 I visited Indonesia’s  Baliem Valley in Irian Jaya, also known as West Papua. There I found this Dani man sharpening the blade of his stone ax. Other stone tools behind him were waiting to be sharpened as well.
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En 1968, de passage pour la vallée de Baliem en Irian Jaya, également connue comme Papua occidentale, le hasard m’a mené à cet homme Dani en train d’aiguiser la lame de sa hache de pierre. Ses autres outils de pierre derrière lui attendaient leur propre tour.

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