Images showing a previous unknown and uncontacted indigenous tribe living deep in the Brazilian jungle has been seen for the first time.
Images taken from above a vast area of dense Amazon rainforest in the far west of northern Brazil and they were taken during an expedition in 2017, but have only been released now.
A tribesman walking with a bow and arrow, an ancestral long house known as a maloca, and a plantation of what is believed to be manioc.
Other members of the tribe can be seen walking through the jungle near the clearing.
The name or ethnicity of the tribe is unknown as the group has never been seen before and no contact has ever been made, according to FUNAI.
The agency said its experts trekked more than 190 miles into the 53,000-square-mile Vale do Javari reservation on the border with Colombia and Peru, after receiving reports that illegal hunters were threatening tribes.
The group also found items which confirmed of the presence of uncontacted tribes in the region, including an abandoned stone axe tied together with vegetable fibre, a horn made from tree bark and dugout canoes.
The region, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, is known to be occupied by six tribes which have been contacted.
But FUNAI believe there at least 16 other tribes living in the forest who have never had any contact with civilisation.
FUNAI's president Wallace Bastos said; 'We respect their isolation. Their isolation will remain until the day they decide against it, or until an extreme situation requires the State to make contact.'
FUNAI believe there are 113 uncontacted tribes living in the Brazilian Amazon, only 27 of which have been sighted, which could number up to 3,000 people.
Images taken from above a vast area of dense Amazon rainforest in the far west of northern Brazil and they were taken during an expedition in 2017, but have only been released now.
A tribesman walking with a bow and arrow, an ancestral long house known as a maloca, and a plantation of what is believed to be manioc.
Other members of the tribe can be seen walking through the jungle near the clearing.
The name or ethnicity of the tribe is unknown as the group has never been seen before and no contact has ever been made, according to FUNAI.
The agency said its experts trekked more than 190 miles into the 53,000-square-mile Vale do Javari reservation on the border with Colombia and Peru, after receiving reports that illegal hunters were threatening tribes.
The group also found items which confirmed of the presence of uncontacted tribes in the region, including an abandoned stone axe tied together with vegetable fibre, a horn made from tree bark and dugout canoes.
The region, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, is known to be occupied by six tribes which have been contacted.
But FUNAI believe there at least 16 other tribes living in the forest who have never had any contact with civilisation.
FUNAI's president Wallace Bastos said; 'We respect their isolation. Their isolation will remain until the day they decide against it, or until an extreme situation requires the State to make contact.'
FUNAI believe there are 113 uncontacted tribes living in the Brazilian Amazon, only 27 of which have been sighted, which could number up to 3,000 people.
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Source: FUNAI, Daily Mail, Survival International
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