Googly Eye Pictures

Anthropologists are all atwitter over the latest discovery of yet another undiscovered wood-age tribe: The Floater Tribe

The Floaters live high in the tree canopies harvesting food and spending a great deal of time socializing and engaging in tribal dances.

There is a very strict hierarchical social order that they all obey.  There are important social niceties and rituals for superiors and inferiors that incur great penalties if they are no followed.

This fellow is giving the traditional full stare given to a superior.  He was obviously impressed by our cameras and equipment and believed himself to be below our stature.

This higher classed individual is wearing the regal green of a leader.  His stance seems to be ambiguous towards us.  Almost giving us the submissive full-stare and yet giving the detached, quarter turn glance that a superior gives to one lesser than his or her place in their society.

You may say that such a rigid social structure is a bad thing, but who are we to judge how other civilizations decide how to run their own lives?  Now that the rest of humanity has made contact with this lost tribe it is only a matter of time until they change to match the rest of the world.  Until then, we in the anthropology community will study and learn all we can from them before they are assimilated into modern western culture.