"Uncontacted" Amazon Tribe spotted

[Ghoulish Delight]

The world is much smaller than it ever was, but there are still apparently some corners left.

A helicopter passing over the Amazon in Brazil caught these images of what seems to be a previously isolated tribe:

http://ap.google.com/media/ALeqM5gW_vuQsgAF2FifrUlP2LiFKCCWSQ?size=l

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=iQix6yrecvbw


It's hard to even believe this is real. I mean, literally aiming bows and arrows at a helicopter?!? Are we sure this isn't a publicity stunt for Indy 5?

I just hope no one dropped a Coke bottle.

Here's (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24895872/) a full article. (Is it just me or does using the term "Indian" seem silly?)

[innerSpaceman]

Nope, Shenanigans, calls me. Poorly timed, too-late publicity stunt for Indy 4. It reeks of it.

[3894]

Watch out for those arrows, people. Curare is wicked.

[Sohrshah]

These are not a previously unknown people... in reading the article, it turns out this is a stunt to make an example to the world of how things are going in Brazil, and that if things continue, these people will disappear as the Yanomamo before them.

[flippyshark]

This story has (alas) reminded me of one the most woeful movies I ever saw, Krippendorf's Tribe, in which Richard Dreyfuss is a failing anthropologist who uses his family to create hoax images of a previously unknown tribe. It's even dumber than that unpromising premise would suggest.

[RStar]

Flippy beat me to it!

It reeks of Krippendorf if you ask me.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Uh-oh, Chongo!

This reminds me of Danger Island from the Banana Splits.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Iiinteresting. I was indeed dazzled by the photos and didn't read the article particularly carefully. Does throw a blanket of suspicion on the whole thing.

[RStar]

Watch out for those arrows, people. Curare is wicked.

[jungle cruse skipper voice] Duck!...shwish!-shwish!-shwish!-shwish!-shwish!-Those are arrows going over your heads folks![/jungle cruse skipper voice]