THEY WERE VISITORS (Worsley) — ”FIRST THE DUTCH CAME, THEN THE JAPANESE, THEN THE AMERICANS, THEN THE DUTCH RETURNED AND NOW THE INDONESIANS HAVE COME” (Elder from Dosal)

Nimdol; June 1959: GEOLOGISTS, BIOLOGISTS & ANTHROPOLOGISTS “DROPPED” FROM THE SKY […] [PEOPLE FROM THE REGION] HAD HEARD THE NOISE, AND, STANDING AT A SAFE DISTANCE OBSERVED THE STRANGE PROCEEDINGS WITH GREAT INTEREST (Brongersma & Venema, Starmountains Expedition) — 18 June 1959: WE HAD SEEN NOTHING LIKE IT BEFORE — ALL THE WOMEN PISSED IN FEAR WHEN THE HELICOPTER CIRCLED FROM THE SKY (Kaiang Tapior; 1987, village of Pepera, formerly Nimdol Bivouac)

ON 14 JUNE [THE MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION] KEPT AN ANXIOUS LOOK-OUT, BUT NO HELICOPTER CAME, NOR ON THE 15th — 17 JUNE: LOOKING WESTWARD TO SEE THE LONG-AWAITED HELICOPTER (Brongersma & Venema)

[THEY ARE] MAKING HOUSES AND TAKING THEM DOWN AGAIN AS THEY COME […] COME TO SEE US AND GO (Makwes & Waeb in Sillitoe)

WE NEVER TELL EVERYTHING, WE ALWAYS KEEP SOMETHING FOR THE NEXT ANTHROPOLOGIST (Informant to Margaret Mead)

Nimdol; 12 February 1958: RUMOURS HAD FLOATED IN ABOUT THE COMING OF KAKAWOKI [THE WHITE MEN] […] MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN RAN OUT TO SEE (Dragt)

MEMBERS OF ANOTHER VILLAGE WERE ANGRILY PROTESTING THAT SULULIB ALREADY HAD TWO ANTHROPOLOGISTS (Feld)