Photographer captures images of uncontacted Amazon tribe

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Source: The Guardian

Photographer captures images of uncontacted Amazon tribe

Brazilian Ricardo Stuckert accidentally stumbled on to the tribe
after his helicopter was diverted

Dominic Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Thursday 22 December 2016 22.21 GMT

A photographer has captured images of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe after his helicopter flight took a detour to avoid a rainstorm and happened to fly over their longhouse.

“I took the camera and started photographing,” said Brazilian photographer Ricardo Stuckert. “I didn’t have much time to imagine what was happening.”

It was a moment of luck for Stuckert, who was on his way to Acre, near the Peruvian border, to photograph another indigenous group for a book he is working on, when he spotted the longhouse.

On the return flight, on 18 December, he was able to grab more images that provide tantalising clues to the lives of uncontacted tribes. Brazil has around 80 such groups but their existence is increasingly threatened by illegal loggers, miners and drug traffickers.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/22/photographer-shows-first-images-of-uncontacted-amazon-tribe

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Source: National Geographic

Exclusive: Stunning New Photos of Isolated Tribe Yield Surprises

By Scott Wallace
Photographs by Ricardo Stuckert
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 21, 2016

Aerial photographs of an isolated tribe in the Brazilian rain forest are yielding a sensational new look at a Neolithic way of life that has all but disappeared from the face of the Earth.

The high-resolution images, taken from a helicopter last week by Brazilian photographer Ricardo Stuckert, offer an unprecedented glimpse of a vibrant indigenous community living in complete isolation in the depths of the Amazon jungle. National Geographic obtained first-time rights from Stuckert to publish a selection.

“I felt like I was a painter in the last century,” Stuckert said, describing his reaction to seeing the natives. “To think that in the 21st century, there are still people who have no contact with civilization, living like their ancestors did 20,000 years ago—it’s a powerful emotion.”

Stuckert’s close-up photographs taken near Brazil’s border with Peru show details about these Indians that had previously escaped the notice of experts, such as their use of elaborate body paint and the way they cut their hair. “We thought they all cut their hair in the same way,” said José Carlos Meirelles, who has worked with and studied Brazil’s indigenous tribes for more than 40 years. “Not true. You can see they have many different styles. Some look very punk.”

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Read more: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/uncontacted-tribe-amazon-brazil-photos/

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1. did we do this a few years ago and it was total bullshit or is this real this time?

[Judi Lynn]

3. I think this one is a different group, in a different part of the Amazon.

I remember some from a couple of years ago, too.

Big area, and no one would know about them if people wanting to seize their ancestral lands to reap more wealth while leaving these innocent people homeless, in a totally foreign environment they would need decades to understand even if they had a safe home, all over again, would leave them the hell alone.

These buttheads gaping down from their thundering buckets of bolts have no idea what kind of terror they are presenting these people on the ground who are very well adapted to their own environment.

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4. i thought so

[Judi Lynn]

5. If I'm not mistaken, the images were very similar, with people looking straight up at a helicopter.

I don't know how anyone could want to screw around with these human beings like that. Many of them have seen others from a distance who do have more contact with the outer world, and some of them even trade things for items they can use in their daily lives, like pots and pans, tubs for washing, etc. and even those people give them all the space they need.

Remembering the Star Trek rule: don't interfere with them.

Human clowns can't seem to resist buzzing them time after time, to shake them up a little, as in "why should they have peace in their world if I don't want them to?"

They look as if they are all healthy, and very strong. That can change in a heartbeat once the loggers show up and start tearing down their trees, to haul them off for a tidy profit, so the oil companies can rumble in and start drilling.

That's what the indigenous were protesting in another part of the Amazon in Bagua, Peru, several years ago, when their President Alan "Two Breakfasts" Garcia sent in his police and military and gunboat helicopters and massacred some of them who were only bearing their wooden sticks.

It wasn't his first indigenous massacre, either.

Native people have been wildly abused from the time the first wave of killers arrived from Europe.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Sighting of uncontacted Amazonian tribe in pictures

Sighting of uncontacted Amazonian tribe – in pictures

Brazilian photographer Ricardo Stuckert captured amazing close-up photographs of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe after his helicopter flight took a detour to avoid a rainstorm and happened to fly over their longhouse


Ricardo Stuckert
Thursday 22 December 2016 18.07 EST

Photos at link:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2016/dec/22/sighting-of-uncontacted-amazonian-tribe-in-pictures

[Judi Lynn]

6. This Amazon tribe lived without the outside world. They may be the last

This Amazon tribe lived without the outside world. They may be the last

Dan Collyns

Ricardo Stuckert’s astounding images reminded me of my experiences meeting isolated indigenous people. With living space diminishing, their future is in peril

Friday 23 December 2016 12.18 EST


The remarkable photos taken by Ricardo Stuckert of an uncontacted Amazon tribe reminded me of my own experience with the indigenous people of nearby Peru. “The Nomole are here, they’ve come. The Nomole,” were the hushed whispers I heard outside my tent as I was roused from my dawn slumber. Nomole was a term meaning brothers which I had heard many times in the last few days, at once embracing and familial yet also uttered with apprehensive concern.

With a jolt of adrenaline I pulled on some trousers and stumbled out into the open and jogged to the edge of a riverside bluff and gazed out. As the morning mist rose like steam off the Manu national park forest, 11 matchstick figures had emerged from the foliage and were walking out over a rock-strewn strand some 200m away across the turbulent Upper Madre de Dios river.

To me it could have been a scene from the dawn of mankind. I felt I was looking at humanity, stripped down in all its primitive magnificence, and it was humbling. Men, women, one pregnant, one with an infant, and children, naked and unarmed strode over the rocks and began to call out, beckoning to special protection agents employed by Peru’s culture ministry on our side of the river bank.

It was Romel Ponciano, whom they called Yotlotle (which means giant river otter in their language), they were calling for. Having seen one of these exuberant Amazonians I had to admit the anthropomorphic resemblance was uncanny and even funny. Portly and affable, Ponciano, an indigenous Yine leader, had a gentle air and exuded calm. He had had more than 20 encounters with the Mashco-Piro tribe and understands about 80% of their language. Such meetings can be dangerous, even deadly, but as children rode piggy-back on Ponciano’s back and he gave his T-shirt to one of the men to wear it was clear I was beholding a friendly exchange as timeless and quintessentially human as any.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/23/amazon-tribe-no-contact-outside-world-last-ricardo-stuckert