found lost tribe

Here are the astonishing new aerial photos of a lost Indian tribe thriving in the jungles of Brazil, growing their own food and living in palm-roofed huts.

The pictures of the tribe on the remote border of Brazil and Peru were released by the human rights group Survival International, who fear the group's existence is being threatened by illegal logging.


The photos, taken by Brazil's Indian Affairs Department, shows healthy-looking men, women and children, some in colorful hats and others with their faces painted red.

Hand-woven baskets brimming with papayas and cassava are seen in a community area, where members of the tribe appear to be staring up at government aircraft while holding bows and arrows and spears. One young tribal child appears to be holding a machete.

Survival International refers to them as "uncontacted" people because of their limited contact with the outside world. Brazilian officials discovered the tribe two years ago and released earlier photos of them.

"It is necessary to reaffirm that these peoples exist, so we support the use of images that prove these facts," said Marcos Apurinã, of Brazil's Amazon Indian organization.

They are the amazing pictures that were beamed around the globe: a handful of warriors from an 'undiscovered tribe' in the rainforest on the Brazilian-Peruvian border brandishing bows and arrows at the aircraft that photographed them.

Or so the story was told and sold. But it has now emerged that, far from being unknown, the tribe's existence has been noted since 1910 and the mission to photograph them was undertaken in order to prove that 'uncontacted' tribes still existed in an area endangered by the menace of the logging industry.