The Yaifo people are a remote tribe in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea in the highlands.[1][2] The tribe was described by British writer, broadcaster and explorer, Benedict Allen, in his account of a 1988 expedition, The Proving Grounds: A Journey through the Interior of New Guinea and Australia (1991).[3][4][5]
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^Benedict Allen (1991). The Proving Grounds: Journey Through the Interior of New Guinea and Australia (1st ed.). Grafton. ISBN 978-0246136336.
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^Wang, Amy B. (16 November 2017). "A British explorer is ending his latest expedition with something he didn't want: A rescue". Washington Post. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
The Yaifo people are a remote tribe in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea in the highlands. The tribe was described by British writer, broadcaster...
outside contact with two threatened indigenous peoples – the Obini and Yaifo. Today Allen is acknowledged as one of the last great adventurers in the...