Young Michael Rockefeller died on an expedition to New Guinea in 1961 ... that he was alive and had gone native — or that his skull had been found in the clutches of headshrinkers.

The late scion of an American dynasty died under bizarre circumstances 64 years ago. Now, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum named for him is reopening and putting him back in the spotlight.

When it was all over, they wrapped what remained of the skull in banana leaves ... A recent graduate of Harvard, Michael Rockefeller had been to Dutch New Guinea on a prior trip in October ...

Michael C. Rockefeller, son of Nelson Rockefeller, adjusts his camera before taking pictures of Papuan men in New Guinea in 1961. AP Nov. 19, 1961: Two young men drift on an overturned catamaran ...

A documentary film which confirms that Michael Rockefeller, the youngest son of former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea in 1961 is set to be released by ...

Photographer Gianluca Chiodini, 41, bravely visited the tribesman in New Guinea, now part of Indonesia, despite the rumours of them devouring the body of Michael Rockefeller in 1961. Author Carl ...

It’s a horrific scenario. A young man, scion of one of America’s most storied families, struggles through an incredible 18-hour swim in the Arafura Sea. Finally, shore is at hand. So, it seems ...

The author of a new book ... Nelson Rockefeller and heir to a vast family fortune went missing in Dutch New Guinea while filming a documentary. At the time, officials declared Michael Rockefeller ...

Together they strained for sight or sign of Mary’s twin brother, Michael Clark Rockefeller, 23. It seemed an all but hopeless search. Five days earlier, on a trip between south New Guinea’s ...

But it was Nelson’s son, Michael ... to New Guinea. Its mission was to study the Ndani people of the Baliem Valley in the remote western portion of the island. But the 23-year-old Rockefeller ...