First Contact: New Guinea Highlands

For the second installment of our nascent First Contact series, we’re gonna hit the layup and blog about this classic culture-clash documentary. A prized Microkhan correspondent and former New Guinea resident summarizes the film with far more acumen than we could ever manage:

Basic story is that the initial European settlements in Papua (south side of the East part of the island by the British) and New Guinea (north side and surrounding islands by the Germans) hugged the coasts in part because t