With the ‘man of the hole’ gone, Brazil loses the last surviving member of an Indigenous Amazonian tribe
He was a unique individual surviving in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, living on fruit, nuts and game. A symbol of the struggle of indigenous people of the Amazon, he lived a solitary life and was known for the holes he dug around the forest.
The man was covered in the bright feathers of a bird called the guacamaya, a kind of macaw, local news reports said. Grab of a file video taken on March 19, 2011, and released on July 18, 2018, by Brazil's National Indian Foundation , showing a tribesman believed to be the last known survivor of an isolated Amazonian community in Brazil. The "man of the hole" was first spotted in 1996 by a documentary team traveling with officials of the National Indian Foundation , a government agency that was probing a massacre committed against his tribe.
But he made clear he did not want to engage anyone. Feeling threatened, one time he shot an arrow that left a visiting team member seriously wounded.
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