Tobias Schneebaum
Tobias Snow Tree ( born March 25, 1922 in Manhattan, † 20 September 2005) is an American author, anthropologist, and AIDS activist.
Life
Schneebauma studied anthropology at Stuyvesant High School and the City College of New York, where he graduated in mathematics and art, 1943. As an author, he wrote several books in his life. In 1947 he moved to Mexico for three years, where he worked as an artist and painted pictures. In 1955 he moved to Peru, where he lived for several months with the tribe of Harakambut. In 1973 he took a trip to Papua, where he lived with the tribe of Asmat. About his experience in Peru, he wrote the book Keep the River on Your Right. In 1999 he filmed a documentary film titled Keep the River on Your Right about his travels to Peru and Papua. The last decades of his life were spent as an artist in Greenwich Village in New York City. Snow tree lived openly homosexual in New York City.