Last of the Medicine Men

Season 1 • Episode 4: Episode 4 • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 4: Episode 4

October 19, 2000

Benedict Allen is led into Indonesia's Siberut forest by Amam Dirikogo, a young kerei or medicine man, and comes across a rare species of singing gibbon. Concluding his training as a kerei, he attends a cleansing ceremony, and spends a night alone on one of the country's most sacred hills.

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