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http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/01/5965571-newly-released-photos-of-uncontacted-amazon-indian-tribe-give-us-a-glimpse-of-another-world?GT1=43001 ht

by jim_h 16y ago

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/01/5965571-newly-released-photos-of-uncontacted-amazon-indian-tribe-give-us-a-glimpse-of-another-world?GT1=43001 http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/01/5965571-newl... This has better photos. According to NBC report in 2008, an agency has been aware of the tribe and have been tracking (and not contacting) them since 1910.

jim_h 16y ago
They mostly likely have had contact with some people. In the first photo, you can make out a nice machete and a pot.
- RK 16y ago
  Supposedly this is due to intertribal trade, rather than direct contact with the larger outside communities.
  - fingerprinter 16y ago
    Is there some number of links that would make this tribe 'contacted' then? I would have assumed 'uncontacted' meant 'no knowledge of outside world at all' but it seems not. Having this tribe get a machete and pot and see a plane makes it feel pretty 'contacted'. Not that I want to quibble over some definition...
    - RK 16y ago
      I would make a Facebook joke here, but... I think that they mean that these people have not been in direct contact with non-tribal people. It sounds like most of them are very isolated. Even the other tribes that have contact with the mainstream society seem to have little to no contact with these "uncontacted" tribes. This is mostly info I read on that website and related links, i.e. I'm not an expert.
  - seanos 16y ago
    If they like trading pots and knives with other tribes, maybe they would like to trade with the wider world if they were given the opportunity?
- Luyt 16y ago
  Someone of the comments even suggest that these pictures are a hoax, shot in someone's backyard, and from the ground, not in a helicopter. Others say that they could have found the machete and cooking pot in an abandoned camp. Whatever the truth, having a machete is certainly a 'contact' with modern civilisation, I think.
tommi 16y ago
The child in the first picture has very big and modern looking blade on his hand and a metallic pot is on the ground as pointed out by Keyframe in an another comment. Far from uncontacted.
- jonursenbach 16y ago
  For all we know they found those items in the jungle that were left behind by travelers.

by jim_h 16y ago

jim_h 16y ago

They mostly likely have had contact with some people. In the first photo, you can make out a nice machete and a pot.

RK 16y ago
Supposedly this is due to intertribal trade, rather than direct contact with the larger outside communities.
- fingerprinter 16y ago
  Is there some number of links that would make this tribe 'contacted' then? I would have assumed 'uncontacted' meant 'no knowledge of outside world at all' but it seems not. Having this tribe get a machete and pot and see a plane makes it feel pretty 'contacted'. Not that I want to quibble over some definition...
  - RK 16y ago
    I would make a Facebook joke here, but... I think that they mean that these people have not been in direct contact with non-tribal people. It sounds like most of them are very isolated. Even the other tribes that have contact with the mainstream society seem to have little to no contact with these "uncontacted" tribes. This is mostly info I read on that website and related links, i.e. I'm not an expert.
- seanos 16y ago
  If they like trading pots and knives with other tribes, maybe they would like to trade with the wider world if they were given the opportunity?
Luyt 16y ago
Someone of the comments even suggest that these pictures are a hoax, shot in someone's backyard, and from the ground, not in a helicopter. Others say that they could have found the machete and cooking pot in an abandoned camp. Whatever the truth, having a machete is certainly a 'contact' with modern civilisation, I think.

tommi 16y ago

The child in the first picture has very big and modern looking blade on his hand and a metallic pot is on the ground as pointed out by Keyframe in an another comment. Far from uncontacted.

jonursenbach 16y ago
For all we know they found those items in the jungle that were left behind by travelers.