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"For 45 years, I had nightmares about the raid," says Schneebaum, now a leading expert on the art- work of another headhunting tribe, the Asmat of New Guinea. So he staunchly refused when the Shapiros begged him to return to Peru along with their camera. He didn't want to relive the most traumatic night of his life. He didn't want to learn that his Harakhambut friends were all dead. And he was nearly 80, after all. He had recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and had received three hip replacements. The Shapiros, who maxed out their credit cards to fund the film, contin- ued to beg him, however. When Schneebaum insisted he couldn't remember where he disappeared into the rainforest, Laurie combed his apartment for clues. Behind a bookshelf, she found a crinkled slip of paper inscribed with a single word: Kosnipata. An Internet search revealed the word referred to a river in the Amazon forest — and led the filmmakers to a guide who believed some of Schneebaum's friends might still be alive. The artist's curiosity was peaked. In June 1999, he flew with the Shapiros to the Amazon, stepped into a canoe and began a three-week journey into his past. It was the film shoot from hell. In Peru, David Shapiro and his camera- man suffered relapses of the malaria they had contracted while shooting with Schneebaum in New Guinea, where they had filmed a touching reunion with the artist's former male lover. Laurie endured the 100-degree heat and drenching rainstorms while bat- din, severe vomiting and diarrhea. Mosquitos and sandflies tormented the crew as they traveled 10 hours a day down the murky river past forests that teemed with snakes and sloths. Every night, Schneebaum's night- mares seemed to intensify. "He was screaming at the top of his lungs," Laurie Shapiro recalls. 'Jr was the most bone-chilling thing I have ever heard." Yet the team pressed on, and after obtaining directions from the oldest res- ident of a remote village, they arrived at an even more isolated outpost in the middle of an electrical storm. As Laurie Shapiro attempted to calm Schneebaum, David and his camera- Tobias Schneebaum, left, with filmmakers Laurie and David Shapiro: "I came full circle in a way that I never expected," says Schneebaum. man used a machete to cut a staircase in a 20-foot-high clay cliff so the eld- erly artist could walk up to the settle- ment. Inside a decrepit gathering hall, the New Yorkers found a number of Harakhambut watching Rambo on a flickering TV set. Immediately, the old-timers recog- nized Schneebaum. They laughed as they remembered his feeble bow-and- arrow skills and cried when he pro- duced pictures of their long-dead rela- tives. "Our children have never seen their ancestors before," they told him. "Thank you for coming back to us." 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