Song of the Mamuna Tribe of South Papua

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I'm not sure when, but recently a YouTuber named Drew Binsky visited Papua New Guinea in search of the remote civilizations in the deep jungle. According to the internets - Wiki, mostly - the tribes in this jungle have extremely infrequent contact with the outside world. Up until the late 1970's, they have zero contact - for over 65,000 years. I'm not entirely sure how accurate all that is, but that's the story I've learned so far.

I didn't learn any of that until my wife sent me what is the second half of the video above.

Drew Binsky stayed with the Mamuna Tribe for two days and made a half-hour long documentary about his experience getting there, meeting them, and what their world is like:

https://youtu.be/S4quEQW3TFA?si=LtFi4PD0Le4mdc30

He captured this moment in video, thank God. On it's own, it is beautiful.

Then, a fella named Daniel Hanson took this clip and harmonized it to make it other-worldly, and it went viral.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Uzw3wcBd71A?si=9R8rFA5poA1SqxHn

I wanted the story behind it, the original video. I'm very glad Sara sent it to me and I went digging. Belting this out is very cathartic.

There's conjecture as to it's translation, in fact, I've only seen one internet comment with an English translation - whether it's accurate at all is suspect, and really, not relevant.