Available for the first time on DVD! After squandering his grant money despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts makeup and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the ""Shelmikedmu "" a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse he gets into the act as we