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This axe found in 2017 in a Flecheiro village near the Jutai River in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land may have been left behind by a FUNAI expedition several years ago.

A pair of crude canoes used by the Flecheiros on the banks of the Jutai River.

A communal dwelling, or maloca, of the Flecheiros, or Arrow People, photographed from a drone on a 2017 FUNAI expedition in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land.

A look inside the lone survivor's hut.

An enlarged screen grab taken from the 2009 documentary Corumbiara: They Shoot Indians, Don't They? by Vincent Carelli. It shows the face of the lone survivor as he hides from a FUNAI team inside his thatched hut.

One of the huts the lone survivor builds for himself.

A fleeting glimpse of the "lone survivor" in the Tanaru Indigenous Land in the state of Rondônia.