Savage Harvest Part 16

189 The killings in Otsjanep almost four years earlier: Author's interview with Hubertus von Peij, Tilburg, Netherlands, December 2011.

189 Von Peij was overwhelmed: Ibid.

189 "Nda kapak to": Ibid.

190 Von Peij scratched a note: Ibid.

190 On December 12, van Kessel arrived in Agats: Van Kessel, report to Tillemans, January 23, 1962.

190 On December 15, back in Basim, van Kessel: Ibid.

191 Gabriel took the note that night to Nijoff: Ibid.

191 Five days later, on December 20, Ajim, Fin: Ibid.

191 "THEY DID NOT DENY THE MURDER," van Kessel wrote: Ibid.

191 "Resident Merauke [Eibrink Jansen] received through controller Agats": Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cable 7740 to Ministry of Internal Affairs, December 21, 1961, National Archive of the Netherlands.

22. JANUARY, FEBRUARY, AND MARCH 1962.

206 On December 20, 1961, one month after Michael disappeared: P. J. Platteel, cable to Dutch emba.s.sy, Canberra, Australia, December 20, 1961, National Archive of the Netherlands.

207 "The entire area has been extensively searched": P. J. Platteel telegram to Nelson Rockefeller, December 21, 1961, National Archive of the Netherlands.

207"All of us in the family will be eternally grateful": "New Guinea Dutch End Search for Rockefeller's Missing Son," New York Times, December 22, 1961.

207 Van Kessel and von Peij named fifteen men: Van Kessel, report to Tillemans, January 23, 1962.

208 Van Kessel had been pus.h.i.+ng for a trip home: Herman Tillemans, letter to Cornelius van Kessel, December 27, 1961, OSC Archives.

209 "From the Resident I got approval to see": Ibid.

209 "I wrote my bishop": Author's interview with Hubertus von Peij, Tilburg, Netherlands, December 2011.

209 "In the matter of Mr. M. Rockefeller": Herman Tillemans, letter to Hubertus von Peij and Cornelius van Kessel, February 1, 1962, OSC Archives.

209 "What is most puzzling to me," Sowada wrote: Alphonse Sowada, letter to Herman Tillemans, February 22, 1962, OSC Archives.

210 "I received your letter in relation to": Hubertus von Peij, letter to Herman Tillemans, February 3, 1962, OSC Archives.

211 "Everywhere it's a.s.sumed that": Herman Tillemans, letter to F. R. J. Eibrink Jensen, February 14, 1962, OSC Archives.

211 "I want to ask you to make clear to Father van Kessel": Herman Tillemans, letter to the Provencial, February 25, 1962, OSC Archives.

211 "I rely on you to forbid van Kessel": Herman Tillemans, letter to the Provencial, February 28, 1961, OSC Archives.

212 December 2011 report by the Dutch Conference of Bishops: "Catholic Church Involved in Abuse of Dutch Children, Report Finds," Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2011.

212 the most common punishment was a quiet transfer: Ibid.

212 On March 4, Father van de Wouw sent Gabriel: Anton van de Wouw, letter to Herman Tillemans, March 4, 1962, OSC Archives.

212 "Gab did not pick up anything in Ocenep": Anton van de Wouw, letter to Herman Tillemans, March 23, 1962, OSC Archives.

212 "If you get new information on the case of Rockefeller": Herman Tillemans, letter to Anton van de Wouw, April 4, 1962, OSC Archives.

213 a Dutch priest working in Asmat, W. Hekman: "Zendeling Hekman: Rockefeller Jr. is opgegeten; Wraak tegen moorden van politie," De Waarheid, March 29, 1962.

213 "Press reports from the Netherlands": Dutch emba.s.sy in Was.h.i.+ngton, DC, cable to Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, March 27, 1962, National Archive of the Netherlands.

213 "Similar rumors also circulated": Ibid.

214 Nevertheless, the denials did the trick: "Rockefeller Not Eaten by Cannibals," Canberra Times, March 29, 1962.

214 "It must have been strange for the people there": Author's interview with Wim van de Waal, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, December 2011.

215 "The answer," van de Wouw wrote: Anton van de Wouw, letter to Herman Tillemans, May 15, 1962, OSC Archives.

216 Van de Wouw also reported that Otsjanep: Ibid.

216 "I needed proof, not just names": Author's interview with Wim van de Waal, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, December 2011.

216 "He was very afraid": Ibid.

23. NOVEMBER 2012.

223 lat.i.tude and longitude of where Wa.s.sing: Dutch Navy, telexes, National Archive of the Netherlands.

224 Gananath Obeyesekere called "cannibal talk": Gananath Obeyesekere, The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).

228 In the most striking example: Frank Trenkenschuh, "Cargo Cult in Asmat: Examples and Prospects," in Trenkenschuh, ed., An Asmat Sketchbook Nos. 1 and 2, pp. 5965.

228 valued by insurance appraisers in August 1962: Insurance of the Michael Rockefeller Asmat Collection, Museum of Primitive Art, MMA Archives.

228 In 2012 the Met hosted six million visitors: Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Metropolitan Museum Announces 6.26 Million Attendance," July 16, 2012, available at: http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/news/2012/attendance.

229 the lovely canoe that holds prominence in the Met: Author's interview with Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress, Agats, Papua, December 2012.

229 "to evoke in part the spirit of Asmat life": Metropolitan Museum of Art, press release, September 11, 1962, MMA Archives.

229 "When an Asmat warrior is slain by an enemy villager": Ibid.

230 who answered in June: Anton van de Wouw, letter to Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 26, 1962, MMA Archives.

230 a letter van Kessel himself wrote: Cornelius van Kessel, letter to Robert Goldwater, July 3, 1974, MMA Archives.

230 letters between Rockefeller's lawyers and the Netherlands: Letters between Rockefeller attorneys at Milbank, Tweed, Hope and Hadley and the Dutch government, February 8, April 18, May 3, June 6, and July 6, 1962, National Archive of the Netherlands.

230 valuing his estate: "Rockefeller Son Ruled Dead; Estate Valued at $660,000," New York Times, February 2, 1964.

231 "It would be of great a.s.sistance": William Jackson of Milbank, Tweed, Hope and Hadley, letter to Dutch consul general in New York, February 8, 1962, National Archive of the Netherlands.

232 had explained his findings in a letter: Machlin, The Search for Michael Rockefeller, p. 193.

232 "When Mr. Whitlam remarked that the disappearance": New York Times, May 8, 1975.

232 "I discovered something odd": Frank Monte, The Spying Game: My Extraordinary Life as a Private Investigator (Sydney, Australia: Vapula Press, 2003), p. 180.

233 "Rumors and stories of Michael's having made it to sh.o.r.e": Morgan, Beginning with the End, p. 36.

234 "The family refuses to believe any version of the story": Author's telephone interview with Peter Matthiessen, November 2011.

24. NOVEMBER 2012.

249 Pirien itself was divided into five: Author's interview with Kosmos Kokai, Basim and Pirien Village, Papua, February 2012.

249 Indonesian government officials burned all the jeus: Frank Trenkenschuh, "Some Additional Notes on Zegwaard from a 1970 Vantage," in Trenkenschuh, ed., An Asmat Sketchbook Nos. 1 and 2, pp. 3136.

250 Father Jan Smit was shot to death: Frank Trenkenschuh, "An Outline of Asmat History in Perspective," in Trenkenschuh, ed., An Asmat Sketchbook Nos. 1 and 2, p. 32.

250 Only in the early 1970s did Indonesia begin softening: Ibid., pp. 3136.

252 Fumeripitsj drummed the Asmat to life: Gerbrands, ed., The Asmat: The Journal of Michael Clark Rockefeller, p. 21.

257 "Throughout my life . . . I have been searching": Schneebaum, Secret Places, p. 3.

25. DECEMBER 2012.

260 "Kami is my love": Kosmos Kokai, song translated by Amates Owun.

261 "Bis is my wife": Ibid.

266 Fin replaced Osom as the head of the Otsjanep jeu: Author's interview with Kosmos Kokai, Basim and Pirien Village, Papua, February 2012.

269 Van de Wouw's photos are heartrending: OSC Archives.

269 By early November 1962: The journals of Anton van de Wouw, De Kasuarinenjust (19621969), OSC Archives.

269 "Now and then you could see dogs": Ibid.

271 Australian army helicopters had been dispatched: Ibid.; author's interview with Kosmos Kokai, Basim and Pirien Village, Papua, February 2012.

272 who had taken over the dead men's leaders.h.i.+p positions: Author's interview with Kosmos Kokai, Basim and Pirien Village, Papua, February 2012.

274 tensions in Otsjanep reached a crescendo: Anton van de Wouw, De Kasuarinenjust (19621969), OSC Archives.

275 Ajim was shot by an arrow: Ibid.

275 demanded the shooter's nine-year-old sister: Ibid.

275 "Somebody has to interfere," he wrote: Ibid.

275 "the two sides of the villages are not yet back together": Ibid.

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