Rockefeller's death was eventually ruled a drowning, but there have long been questions about the official version of events.Ī book published in 2014 by Carl Hoffman claims that there is 'clear and abundant' evidence that Rockefeller made it to shore and was killed and ceremonially eaten by the Asmat tribesmen. After a night adrift, Rockefeller set out to swim for the distant shore, leaving his companion René Wessing with the fateful words: 'I think I can make it…' He was never seen again. Several miles off shore, heavy seas swamped his craft. Rockefeller disappeared after a trading canoe that he was travelling in down the cannibal coast of New Guinea capsized while he was collecting the wooden carvings for his father's recently opened Museum of Primitive Art. Their ancestors are at the centre of the mystery of the 1961 disappearance of 23-year-old Rockefeller, whose great-grandfather was the co-founder of Standard Oil and established one of America's wealthiest dynasties, who travelled to New Guinea to photograph the Dani people and collect their art. The images offer a rare glimpse of the Grand Valley Dani people, an ethnic group located in a remote part of western New Guinea in Indonesia. These are the remote Indonesia people accused of murdering and eating American heir Michael Rockefeller sixty years ago before they renounced cannibalism and turned to Christianity.
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