They have very black shoulder-length hair, thin mustaches and muscular bodies devoid of tattoos or jewelry. Equipped with long sticks, they plant pikes in the ground, probably to dissuade foreigners from venturing onto their land. This is what the previously unpublished images of a group of young men from the Massaco people show, one of the twenty-eight “uncontacted” indigenous communities, that is to say without interaction with the outside world, officially recognized in the Brazilian Amazon, revealed on December 22 by the newspapers The Guardian et Globo.
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The photos were taken in 2019 and 2024 by automatic cameras installed in the forest, on Massaco indigenous land (421,895 hectares), in the state of Rondônia, in the northwest of Brazil, by the National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (Funai), the body responsible for protecting the rights of indigenous peoples in the country. The objective of Funai was to quantify the population of this people, whose language, culture, social organization and beliefs remain a mystery. The organization doesn't even know what their name is: the name Massaco was given to them because of the name of the river that crosses their land.
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