The Korowai,

were unknown to the outside world until the 1970s,

and it was the idea of  Will Millard to visit the tribe in Western Papua in Indonesia and make a 3 part series titled, My Year with the Tribe, the first shown on BBC2, last Sunday, as the team neared the village small things did not quite seem right, the penny didn’t really drop until the two men reached their destination, where another Korowai family were sitting naked in a treehouse, initially, these neighbors gamely tried to pretend this was how they passed an average day. But once they realised that this particular day might go unpaid, the truth started to emerge. 

‘This is not our home,’ pointed out a family member. ‘These houses were commissioned by Canadians for filming.’ ‘I was told we should be here with our clothes off,’ added one of the two wives, Her husband, meanwhile, helpfully laid out the business plan of which this was a crucial part. ‘I lie around until there are guests,’ he told Millard. ‘And then I get naked and they photograph me.’ He also provided a handy price list, ranging from £5 for a basic photo to £50 for the full insect-grub hunt, the fact that also one of the ‘lost tribe’ had a good knowledge of how a smart phone worked was another giveaway clue as to how lost the tribe really were, any way if you are in the UK part 2 should be showing today, although where the story of the 'lost tribe' will go will be anybodies guess!