Amazonas Indians from one of the world's last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air,
with striking images showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows at a helicopter.
The photographs of the tribe near the border between Brazil and Peru are rare evidence that such groups exist.
After almost 20 hours in a single-engine airplane, the sertanista Jose Carlos Dos Reis Meirelles Júnior, commanded a flight that resulted in the first photographs of the indians of one of the four isolated ethnicities that live in the border of the Acre with Peru.
The women and its children had run away for the forest looking for protection, while the warriors of the tribe itook positions and reacted shooting arrows to the airplane.
We already knew of the existence of these peoples, but from now on, we have the material proof that the region is one of the few that houses the latest isolated or unknown ethnicities of the planet - said Jose Carlos Meirelles, with exclusivity for Terra Magazine.
In the headwaters of the Igarapé Xinane, known on the maps of geography as Cachoeira (waterfall), very close to parallel 10, the limit Brazil-Peru, were photographed two malocas of isolated Indians.
Both were originally located, from the resources of Google Earth, in Amazonas, which tried to send the coordinates to her colleague in Acre.
Last year, in a dispatch, we come to this place and saw many traces.
We thought that there might be maloca in the region, which was confirmed. One of them is well and confirms the recent migration of isolated indians to Brazil due to pressure from illegal exploitation of timber in the headwaters of the Peruvian River Envira - marks the sertanista.
The Indian women of the group of isolated indians that was photographed had a short skirt of cotton.
The men use a tied tape of cotton in which they tie the penis. They shave up to half the hair of the head, but the hair extends until the middle of the back. They use tiaras and appear painted with urucum (red). It draws attention the fact that a few are painted with Jenipapo, that is, with black bodies, but without bow and arrow.

Written by :

Henrik Bratfeldt

 

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