Background
Schneebaum, Tobias was born on March 25, 1922 in New York City. Son of Jacob and Rebecca (Ehrenfreund) S. Student City University of New York, 1939-1942.
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Tobias Schneebaum here tells the remarkable story of his four years among the Asmat of New Guinea, a jungle-dwelling people rumored to have killed Michael Rockefeller. Instead of ferocious cannibals, Schneebaum found a regal, gentle people who freely accepted him and initiated him into a way of life no outsider had ever seen before.
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( Tobias Schneebaum here tells the remarkable story of hi...)
Tobias Schneebaum here tells the remarkable story of his four years among the Asmat of New Guinea, a jungle-dwelling people rumored to have killed Michael Rockefeller. Instead of ferocious cannibals, Schneebaum found a regal, gentle people who freely accepted him and initiated him into a way of life no outsider had ever seen before.
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( In 1955, armed with a penknife and instructions to keep...)
In 1955, armed with a penknife and instructions to keep the river on his right, Brooklyn-born artist Tobias Schneebaum set off into the jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals. Forgoing all contact with civilization, he lived as a brother with the Akaramas –– shaving and painting his body, hunting with Stone Age weapons, sleeping in the warmth of the body-pile.
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(In 1955, armed with a penknife and instructions to keep t...)
In 1955, armed with a penknife and instructions to keep the river on his right, Brooklyn-born artist Tobias Schneebaum set off into the jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals. Forgoing all contact with civilization, he lived as a brother with the Akaramas -- shaving and painting his body, hunting with Stone Age weapons, sleeping in the warmth of the body-pile.
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Schneebaum, Tobias was born on March 25, 1922 in New York City. Son of Jacob and Rebecca (Ehrenfreund) S. Student City University of New York, 1939-1942.
In 1939 he graduated from the Stuyvesant High School, moving on to the City College of New York, graduating in 1943 after majoring in mathematics and art
He is best known for his experiences living, and traveling among the Harakmbut people of Peru, and the Asmat people of Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia then known as Irian Jaya. During World World War II he served as a radar repairman in the United States. Army. In 1947, after briefly studying painting with Rufino Tamayo at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Schneebaum went to live and paint in Mexico for three years, living among the Lacandon tribe.
After hitch-hiking from New York to Peru, he lived with the Harakmbut people for seven months, and said he had joined the tribe in cannibalism on one occasion.
He recounted his journey into the jungles of Peru in the 1969 memoir Keep the River on Your Right. Until 1970 he was the designer at Tiber Press, then in 1973 he embarked on his third overseas trip, to Irian Jaya in South East Asia, where he lived with the Asmat people on the south-western coast.
He helped establish the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress. In 1999, he revisited both Irian Jaya and Peru for a documentary film, titled Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale.
Schneebaum spent the final years of his life in Westbeth Artists Community, an artists" commune in Greenwich Village, New York City, also home to Merce Cunningham and Diane Arbus, and died in 2005 in Great Neck, New New York
He bequeathed his renowned Asmat shield collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and his personal papers are preserved within the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
( In 1955, armed with a penknife and instructions to keep...)
(In 1955, armed with a penknife and instructions to keep t...)
( Tobias Schneebaum here tells the remarkable story of hi...)
( Tobias Schneebaum here tells the remarkable story of hi...)
(A book about the cravings of the Asmat people of the Iria...)
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Fellow Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Lake Como, 1984. Member Pen American Center, Explorers.