[quote=Tog Tan;64809]Bob, I will get some pix of these people together and set up a new thread about them in Tiki Hut. The problem now is that due to modernization, they are no longer the same folks we used to know. In the 60's,their women still went around bare chested and they lived in very, very simple thatched huts. Most of the men were very good hunters with the blow pipe. They were used extensively in WW2 as scouts by the British army. Nowadays...Coke, jeans, bikes and handphone! Only a couple in my age group are still pretty good at the jungle craft. Most of the young 'uns well, like our normal young 'uns!
Yeah man it's a shame that wherever modern man sets foot he inevitably changes indigenous culture and not for the better. It has happened all over the world, Africa and Australia prime examples I know about. Damn shame. There are TV programs popular here in the states now that kind of glorify just such practice in the name of profits for the network and the hosts act as if they're doing a good thing.
It would be great if you could document some of the old geezer's (like you and me) among them before they're gone forever. Especially the hunters. Kids here these days put out piles of corn and wait for tame suburban deer and call it hunting, when I was young there were much fewer and kids had to learn woodsmanship..............Time marches on.