These photographs are the first record of a previously undiscovered tribe of people living deep in Brazil's rain forest.
Up until now, there is no record of these people ever having made contact with the outside world, or vice versa.
The men in the photo have painted their bodies with a red-orange paint, and the women have painted themselves black. Is this in response to the plane, which was making its second pass over the area? We can only provide conjecture.
It is amazing to think of all that is yet to be discovered. Just when we think we've got our planet tidilly figured out, something like this comes along. Like the coelacanth, or the rediscovery of the colossal squid, or this tribe furiously defending itself by launching arrows and spears at the plane flying overhead.
This Earth of ours is still full of magic and promise.
Here's the article from the BBC: Isolated Tribe Spotted in Brazil
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They were living there, away from Western Civilization, minding their own business, then wham!
Let's hope there wont be a Starbucks and McDonald's on every bush-corner from now on...
It really makes me wonder what went through their minds when they saw the plane. Obviously they felt fear for the unknown, thus the spears, but what could they have truly thought it was above them? I hope they will be able to resume life as they once knew it and we do not do as heart of darkness said here.
I should think that their reaction would be comparable to a UFO sighting in our society. A few tribesmen see a strange object in the sky, they tell everyone about it but a lot of people are skeptical. The object comes again, different people see it and describe it differently (lets assume it is a different type of plane or a helicopter). By now the tribe is divided and not sure whether this event ever took place because the stories are slightly different. As a result the clan becomes divided and distrustful of one another. It begins to resemble modern society and its tiny idiosyncrasies all the way down to the crazy conspiracy theories...
or maybe they thought it was a bird?
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