Watch Efe Pygmies process vines to extract paralyzing and nauseous poison for their arrows

Watch Efe Pygmies process vines to extract paralyzing and nauseous poison for their arrows

A group of Efe makes poison from rainforest vines for their hunting arrows, 1939.
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