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Photo: "Uncontacted" Brazilian Tribe
Photo: Brazilian tribe members shooting at plane
 
Photograph by AP Photo/Gleison Miranda, FUNAI

Members of one of Brazil's few remaining "uncontacted" tribes, their bodies painted with red and black dye, shoot arrows at a surveillance plane from their rain forest encampment in western Brazil near the Peruvian border.

The photo, one of several released on May 29, 2008, by the indigenous-rights group Survival International, offers proof that such isolated tribes still exist in the increasingly threatened Amazon. The image was captured by officials from Brazil's National Indian Foundation (FUNAI).

See News Articles:
"Photos Spur Debate on Protecting 'Uncontacted' Tribes"
"Photo in the News: 'Uncontacted' Tribe Seen in Amazon"
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