I know by now everyone has seen the photos of the “lost” tribe recently photographed in the Amazon, somewhere on the border between Peru and Brazil, but I wanted to post them here anyway just so I can look at them everyday until they fall off the front page. Wow.
Quote: Brazil’s National Indian Foundation has discovered an Indian tribe in the Amazon that hasn’t had contact with civilization in a rare sighting of the few remaining original inhabitants of the area. Funai, as the foundation is known, spotted a group of Indians, six huts and a large planted area near the Envira River, close to the Peruvian border in the Brazilian state of Acre in the western Amazon rainforest. There are more than 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide, with more than half living in Brazil or Peru. -Bloomberg.com
I know these images and the existence of the tribes themselves probably shouldn’t have surprised me at all, but they did. You just forget. I was just blown away by these. They are so crazy and evocative and amazing.
My one and only comment on these really is, “Oh shit! somebody grab some rope and tie down all the god damned missionaries please!”