'Lost' Amazon tribe a hoax
June 24, 2008 10:10am
THE man behind photographs of warriors from an "undiscovered" Amazon tribe that were beamed around the world has admitted it was simply a hoax.
Indigenous tribes expert, José Carlos Meirelles, said the tribe's existence had been noted since 1910, and they had been photographed to prove that "uncontacted" tribes still existed in an area endangered by logging, The Guardian reported.
Mr Meirelles, who was working for Funai, the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency dedicated to finding remote tribes and protecting them, said he found the group, recorded they lived, and planned the publicity to protect them from losing their habitat.
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