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The Jungle Is a Woman, published by the Chicago house of Henry Regnery, appeared on September 26, 1955.1 Jane and Ken must have turned in the manuscript by late summer 1954, so while the slow wheels of the publishing house turned, Ken worked on Green Hell of the Amazon. Ken probably had the film in Sol Lesser’s hands for the fall 1954 television season, during which Lesser’s I Search for Adventure debuted. The syndicated series featured weekly episodes highlighting unusual explorations from different contributors around the world.
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Ken Krippene, “Deadliest Fresh-Water Fish,” Modern Man 4.9 (March 1955): 37–40. Ken’s first article in the magazine was an excerpt from Buried Treasure two years earlier;
Ken Krippene, “The G-String Buccaneer,” Modern Man 3.1 (July 1953): 12–13, 38–41.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (New York: Ballantine Books, 1992), 9.
A book-length account appeared a year later: Elisabeth Elliot, Through Gates of Splender (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957). Perhaps the definitive recounting of the event and its aftermath—including the reestablishment of peaceful contact with the Waodani, is the 2005 documentary Beyond the Gates of Splender (20th Century Fox).
A photograph of Jane speaking with Nurnberg can be found in Jane Dolinger, “Moon Lust of the Aucas,” Modern Man 7.12 (June 1958): 37.
See also Jane Dolinger, “Moon Lust of the Aucas,” Modern Man 7.12 (June 1958): 36–38, 46–47. In this, Jane’s first periodical article based on the Aushiri experience, an editorial note describes Jane as “a girl with steel nerves and soft curves.”
Bishop Spiller would go on to write Historia de la Misión Josefina del Napo, 1922–1974 (Quito: Artes Gráficas, 1974). He served as the vicar of Napo until 1978, and as vicar emeritus until his death in 1991; see www.catholichierarchy.org/bishop/bspiller.html.
Jane is quite accurate about Ferguson; see, for example, “Cancer Aid from Amazon?” Science News-Letter 54.17 (October 23, 1948): 270. Ferguson’s life story inspired the film Medicine Man starring Sean Connery (Hollywood Pictures, 1992).
Jane adapted this episode for periodical publication several times. See, for example, Jane Dolinger, “I Watched a Head-Shrinking Orgy,” South Sea Stories 1.1 (July 1960): 40–43, 70–72;
Jane Dolinger, “How to Shrink a Human Head,” Real Men 8.7 (October 1964), 40–43, 62, 64, 66.
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Abbott, L. (2010). The Queen of the Jungle Goes Headhunting. In: Jane Dolinger. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230111837_4
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