Amazonas tribe naked (photos)

PICTURED: Inside the forgotten tribe who hunt monkeys naked in Amazon rainforest

Dr Jack Wheeler, 76, ventured to the Ecuadorian rainforest as a 16-year-old with an interest in anthropology. He returned in 1972 and that’s when his meeting with a family within the ‘Naked Auca’ tribe occurred. He’s pictured here during the ‘truly extraordinary’ event

Naked Amazon Awa tribe initiate BBC reporter

Officials from the Brazilian National Indigenous Peoples Foundation () have long forbidden contact with the tribe, but the organisation occasionally lightly intervenes to prevent extended contact with the outside . The new footage taken via automatic cameras shows a group of naked men inspecting sets of implements left out by officials.

The issue of access to areas inhabited by uncontacted tribes came to the fore in January when the Observer exposed the plight of the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands, whose women and girls were being persuaded to dance semi-naked for tourists in return for gifts of food.