INCREDIBLE new photos have emerged of a long lost tribe living in a remote patch of jungle in South America.
The Moxihatetema people live in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, near the border with Venezuela, and have never been contacted.
The pictures – showing the tribespeople inside a communal structure known as a maloca – were taken from a passing aircraft after the tribe shunned previous approaches from outsiders.
The images are the clearest yet of the tribe, who remain completely isolated from the outside world.
When zoomed in, one of the men can be seen shaking his spear in the direction of the camera in what seems like an aggressive gesture.
Other members of the tribe can be seen simply staring upward in the direction of the strange flying object.
The Moxihatetema – one of three Yanomami groups in the area – are monitored remotely after worries over clashes with illegal miners encroaching on their territory, The Guardian reports.
Miners have previously fought with remote tribespeople in the region after invading their protected lands in search of gold.
As well as violence, miners also bring with them diseases to which the Moxihatetema have not been exposed, and so have no immunity.
Fears had been growing for the group after they were not seen for more than a year.
But the latest pics prove they are still alive and well.
The images of the tribe were taken in September, during a surveillance mission of illegal miner camps in the area.
A major police and army operation is being planned to oust the estimated 5,000 miners currently working there against the law.
The images of the Moxihatetema shaking their spears at the aircraft are reminiscent of a similar set of snaps of another isolated people taken eight years ago.
Photos emerged in 2008 showing tribespeople in Brazil’s Envira region near the Peruvian border firing arrows from their bows at a passing plane.
Yesterday we told of the remote Indonesian tribe where women cut off a finger whenever a loved one dies.
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