The work was the result of Grimonprez’s visit to Papua New Guinea that he made in 1986. On arriving at the village of Pepera a local villager asked him the question: ‘Where is your helicopter?’. Grimonprez subsequently learnt that a group of anthropologists had arrived at the village in 1959 by helicopter, an event that had left a lasting legacy on the indigenous people. The overall theme of the work is a commentary on anthropology itself, exploring the roles of the observer and observed, the symbols that define cultural difference.