Word: papuan
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Particulars the perturbed Dutch statesmen could not give. They knew only that a man-eating Papuan tribe had raided the village of Atoika and, after an all night battle, sat down as victors to a banquet at which they ate not only slaughtered enemies but fallen members of their own attacking party. Then, having rounded up the plumpest, tenderest women of Atoika, the victors loaded them with spoil, led them off to various cannibal villages in the interior...