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Why Revealing Uncontacted Tribes May Help Save Them

Published 4 Sep 2018, 16:46 BST
A communal dwelling, or maloca, of the Flecheiros, or Arrow People, photographed from a drone on ...
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.
Photograph by Courtesy Acervo/Funai
A pair of crude canoes used by the Flecheiros on the banks of the Jutai River.
Photograph by Courtesy Acervo/Funai
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.
Photograph by Courtesy Acervo/Funai
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