Under the Mountain Wall
A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
by Peter Matthiessen
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"In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the mountain wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd, Tukum, U-mue and his family, and the boy Weake, killed in a surprise raid"--Page 4 of cover.
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Under the Mountain Wall
May 1, 2003, Vintage, Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
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Under the mountain wall: a chronicle of two seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
1996, Penguin Books
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Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
January 6, 1987, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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"One morning in April, in the year when the old history of the Kurelu came to an end, a man named Weaklekek started down the mountain from the hill village of Lokoparek."
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