{
  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "bskyPostRef": {
    "cid": "bafyreihi5nrgmiuocrfngu35oflhl5kgesqwvqb24immu62aruxm4in7jm",
    "uri": "at://did:plc:i243uudlyj6njfil6ddywa7k/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm63fxz64tz2"
  },
  "coverImage": {
    "$type": "blob",
    "ref": {
      "$link": "bafkreif4xtoebxlrxg22v26aud2pd224u76qv73lc72h2uc7b5wss3guki"
    },
    "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
    "size": 368594
  },
  "path": "/2026/05/18/those-100-foot-korowai-tree-houses-are-mostly-built-for-film-crews.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-18T22:04:45.000Z",
  "site": "https://boingboing.net",
  "tags": [
    "Post",
    "anthropology",
    "bbc",
    "books",
    "indigenous peoples",
    "Korowai",
    "National Geographic",
    "Papua",
    "Robert Moor",
    "tree houses",
    "Read the rest",
    "Those 100-foot Korowai tree houses are mostly built for film crews",
    "Boing Boing"
  ],
  "textContent": "The BBC's _Human Planet_ showed a Korowai family in Papua climbing a bamboo ladder into a hut roughly 100 feet up in an ironwood tree, while the narrator declared height equals prestige in their culture.\n\nBritish tabloids later revealed the scene was staged — the BBC paid a family to build the house for the cameras, then apologized to viewers. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Those 100-foot Korowai tree houses are mostly built for film crews appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "Those 100-foot Korowai tree houses are mostly built for film crews"
}