Last of the Medicine Men
Season 1 • Episode 3: Episode 3 • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: Episode 3
October 12, 2000
This week Benedict Allen visits the Mentawai people on the rainforested island of Siberut in Indonesia. Under the tutelage of a young medicine man, or kerei, he tries to learn one of their sacred healing songs - knowing that if he gets the song wrong, the patient dies.
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