Description (source: www.beeldengeluid.nl): 00.31 Image: widening bow-wave makes floating shore vegetation dancing. 00.37 Water-birds scared out of their rest flying low over the river in front of the boat flapping their wings. 01.08 Winding dirty brown river hemmed in by jungle as seen from the motor-boat. 01.17 The interpreter's arm waves in a peaceful way towards invisible occupants of a house built in the tree-top. 01.25 Group of Papuan villagers seen on their backs, completely naked, wiggling their legs, hands in their sides, towards the approaching boat. While headman manoeuvres his prau on the river, villagers on the shore are waving to the passing motor boat, gliding along on the water along three Papuans standing in a creek. 01.51 Mooring on the upper course of the river, where doctor with his assistants gives injections contra yaw to the villagers queuing up in the streaming rain. 02.17 Deceased put down on bamboo frame, widow keeping watch with death frame of her husband, a child on her back, and her legs wrapped in straw as a sign of mourning. 02.32 Papua with stone axe descends skilfully the long ladder of his house built on bamboo poles and starts carving on the stem of his prau. 02.52 Brawny Papuan rowers, standing in their expedition praus rowing past a vacated village, where one Papua is staying back in a tree, then goes onto a jetty farther down the river. 03 24 Papua meets the disembarked expedition members, assists the camera man to disembark, where the doctor shakes hands cordially with two headmen in clothes. 03.38 Expedition members, doctor, missionary and assistants having a meal together. 03.43 Papua tears the green bask from a coconut with his teeth, other Papua 'fleas' the head hair of villager and puts the salt crystals into his mouth. 03.53 Women with children in their arms or on their backs are waiting patiently for the doctor. 04.06 Assistant with box full of little bottles with penicillin. Doctor in lengthy discussion with headman, while assistant fills syringe. 04.21 Doctor examines hand palms and foot soles of Papua on traces of infection, disinfects with cotton-wool left buttock and presses syringe into body part. 04.35 Close-up of Papua with exuberant nose decoration, assistants deliberating near improvised table. 04.41 Villagers near construction of new community building, girders are being tied to poles with lianas, while missionary and Papua are looking on, arms on each other's shoulders. 05.00 Close-up of Papua with big hole in septum. Doctor takes leave of man with nose bone. 05.09 Fleeing village dog, complete male population waves a good bye from the shore, making gestures of peace. 05.24 Travel prau of the expedition, made from hollow coco palm trunk and propelled by standing rowers, passes a couple of Papuans wiggling their legs, sails along a deserted tree house and a village partially wrecked by head-hunters. Water birds flying away with flapping wings. 06.00 Hostile looking Papuans armed with spears and bows and arrows, but wiggling their legs. 06.15 Prau slides onto muddy river bank, after which headman shouts a command and villager blowing a wooden horn. 06.33 Doctor and missionary are deliberating. Assistant applies injection. 06.43 Sleeping Papua using skull as a head rest, assistant injects man with sucking-pig in his arms. 06.53 Villager climbs high ladder to his tree house. Missionary counts villagers and composition of a family. Assistant goes on giving injections. 07.18 Village house in front of which man is sleeping, tree house in which widow with children is hiding and is being persuaded to come down by the doctor on the ground and the police interpreter on the wobbly landing. 07.41 When travel prau approaches the river bank the doctor goes behind the woman and her children to the village. 07.55 Close-up of Papua with nose decoration and shell decoration on his forehead. Widow joins the villagers. 08.02 Doctor examines a sucking-pig, while mother with child is waiting. 08.11 Assistants near medicines in readiness on an improvised table. Interpreter calls up the people, the doctor continues to deliberate and the villagers are waiting. 08.25 Doctor makes charming gestures over the body of a man fainted from fear. He fans with his hands over the motionless figure and blows over him, while population is looking on fascinated. 08.39 Man is on his legs again, the doctor blows another couple of times, assistant gives encouraging pat on his head, all this in front of the bystanders. 8.50 Mother with crying child in her arms, fathers with crying children, who are getting an injection. 09.11 Missionary resumes counting. Shots of villager with yellow head-band, of man with piece of bone through the septum and of older villagers. 09.37Group of villagers sitting on ladders under shelter of community house. Travel prau nears bank, while children from the other side of the river jump into the water. 09.44 Under orange coloured sky the travel prau sails towards the setting sun. 10.11 End.