MEET THE CANNIBALS ! Human flesh tastes like young cassowary..

This month Smithsonian magazine has an article called
Sleeping with Cannibals. (September, 2006)

Paul Raffaele is the author, photographer.


Indonesia, New Guinea

This is where Michael Rockefeller disappeared in 1961..



Excerpts..

I ask Boas whether [they] eat people for any other reason, or eat the bodies of men they have killed in battle.

OF COURSE NOT he replies, giving me a funny look.

We don't eat humans, we only eat khakhua.
(Male witches are called khakhua)


In cannibal folklore.. human flesh is known as
LONG PIG because of its similar taste. When I mention this, Bailom shakes his head..

Human flesh tastes like young cassowary, he says, referring to a local ostrich like bird.