The wildest tribes of the Amazon: movies, photos, videos to watch online. Wild Indian life in the jungle of South America

Hot water, light, TV, computer - all these objects are familiar to a modern person. But there are places on the planet where these things can cause shock and awe like magic. We are talking about the settlements of wild tribes that have preserved their way of life and habits for a long time. And these are not the wild tribes of Africa who now walk in comfortable clothes and know how to communicate with other peoples. We are talking about aboriginal settlements that were discovered relatively recently. They do not seek to meet modern people, rather the opposite. If you try to visit them, you may be greeted with spears or arrows.

The development of digital technology and the development of new territories leads a person to a meeting with unknown residents our planet. Their habitat is hidden from prying eyes. Settlements can be located in deep forests or on uninhabited islands.

Tribes of the Nicobar and Andaman Islands

The group of islands located in the Indian Ocean basin, to this day, is home to 5 tribes, whose development stopped in the Stone Age. They are unique in their culture and way of life. The official authorities of the islands look after the aborigines and try not to interfere in their life and everyday life. The total population of all tribes is about 1000 people. The settlers are engaged in hunting, fishing, farming and practically do not have contact with the outside world. One of the most vicious tribes is the inhabitants of Sentinel Island. The number of all settlers of the tribe does not exceed 250 people. But, despite the small number, these aborigines are ready to fight back anyone who sets foot on their land.

Tribes of North Sentinel Island

The inhabitants of the island of Sentinel belong to the group of the so-called non-contact tribes. They differ high level aggression and lack of communication towards a stranger. It is interesting that the appearance and development of the tribe is still not fully known. Scientists cannot understand how black people could start living in such a limited space on an island washed by the ocean. There is an assumption that these lands were inhabited by inhabitants more than 30,000 years ago. People stayed within their lands and dwellings and did not move to other territories. Time passed, and the water separated them from other lands. Since the tribe did not develop in terms of technology, they did not have any contacts with the outside world, so any guest for these people is a stranger or enemy. Moreover, communication with civilized people is simply contraindicated for the Sentinel Island tribe. Viruses and bacteria, to which modern man has immunity, can easily kill any member of the tribe. The only positive contact with the island's settlers was in the mid-90s of the last century.

Wild tribes in the Amazon forests

Are there savage tribes today that modern people have never communicated with? Yes, there are such tribes, and one of them was discovered not so long ago in the dense forests of the Amazon. This was due to active deforestation. Scientists have long said that these places can be inhabited by wild tribes. This conjecture has been confirmed. The only video footage of the tribe was taken from a light aircraft by one of the largest television channels in the United States. The footage shows that the settlers' huts are made in the form of tents covered with leaves. The inhabitants themselves are armed with primitive spears and bows.

Piraha

The population of the Piraha tribe is about 200 people. They live in the Brazilian jungle and differ from other aborigines in their very weak language development and lack of a number system. Simply put, they don't know how to count. They can also be called the most illiterate inhabitants of the planet. Tribe members are forbidden to talk about what they have not learned from their own experience or to adopt words from other languages. In Pirakh's speech, there is no designation of animals, fish, plants, colors and weather. Despite this, the aborigines are not spiteful towards others. Moreover, they often act as guides through the jungle thickets.

Loaf

This tribe lives in the forests of Papua New Guinea. They were discovered only in the mid-90s of the last century. They found a home in a thicket of forests between two mountain ranges. Despite their funny name, the Aboriginal people cannot be called good-natured. The cult of the warrior is widespread among the settlers. They are so hardy and strong in spirit that they can feed on larvae and pasture for weeks until they find suitable prey on the hunt.

Loafs live mainly in trees. Making their huts out of twigs and twigs like huts, they protect themselves from evil spirits and witchcraft. Pigs are worshiped in the tribe. These animals are used like donkeys or horses. They can only be slaughtered and eaten when the pig becomes old and can no longer carry a load or a person.

In addition to the aborigines living on islands or in tropical forests, you can meet people who lead a life according to old customs in our country. This is how the Lykovs lived in Siberia for a long time. Fleeing from persecution in the 30s of the last century, they went to the remote taiga of Siberia. For 40 years, they survived, adapting to the harsh conditions of the forest. During this time, the family managed to almost completely lose the entire crop of plants and recreate it from a few surviving seeds. Old Believers were engaged in hunting and fishing. Lykov's clothes were made from the skins of killed animals and coarse self-woven hemp threads.

The family has retained the old customs, chronology and the original Russian language. In 1978, they were accidentally discovered by geologists. The meeting became a fatal discovery for the Old Believers. Contact with civilization led to the illness of individual family members. Two of them died suddenly from kidney problems. He died a little later younger son from pneumonia. This once again proved that the contact of a modern person with representatives of more ancient peoples can become deadly for the latter.

These people do not know what electricity is and how to drive cars, they live the way their ancestors lived for centuries, hunting and fishing for food. They cannot read or write, and can die from a common cold or a scratch. It's all about wild tribes that still exist on our planet.

There are not many such communities closed from civilization; they live mainly in warm countries, in Africa, South America, Asia and Australia. Today it is believed that no more than 100 such tribes have survived on the entire planet. Sometimes it is almost impossible to study their life and culture, because they live too isolated and do not want to have contact with the outside world, or their immune system is not ready to "meet" modern bacteria, and any disease that a modern person may not even notice , for the savage will be fatal. Unfortunately, civilization is still "advancing", almost everywhere there is uncontrolled felling of trees, people are still developing new lands, and wild tribes are forced to leave their lands, and sometimes even go to the "big" world.

Papuans

This people lives in New Guinea, is found in Melanesia, on the islands of Halmahera, Timor and Alor.

In terms of anthropogenic appearance, the Papuans are closest to the Melanesians, but with a completely different language and culture. Some tribes speak perfectly in different languages that are not even related. Today their national language is Tok Pisin Creole.

In total, there are approximately 3.7 million Papuans, with some wild tribes numbering no more than 100 people. There are many nationalities among them: Bonkin, Gimbu, Ekari, Chimbu and others. It is believed that these people inhabited Oceania 20-25 thousand years ago.

Every community has community house called boumbramba. This is a kind of cultural and spiritual center of the entire village. In some villages you can see a huge house in which everyone lives together, its length can reach 200 meters.

The Papuans are farmers, the main crops grown are taro, banana, yam and coconut. The crop must be kept on the vine, that is, it is collected only for eating. Savages also breed pigs and hunt.

Pygmies

These are the wild tribes of Africa. Even the ancient Egyptians knew about their existence. They are mentioned in Homer and Herodotus. However, the first time to confirm the existence of pygmies was only in the 19th century, when they were discovered in the basin of the Uzle and Ituri rivers. Today, the existence of these people is known in Rwanda, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Zaire and the forests of Gabon. You can even meet pygmies in South Asia, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia.

Distinctive feature pygmies - short stature, from 144 to 150 centimeters. Their hair is curly, their skin is light brown. The body is usually quite large, and the legs and arms are short. Pygmies are distinguished into a separate race. These peoples have not identified a special language, they communicate in those dialects whose peoples live nearby: Asua, Kimbuti and others.

Another feature of this people is the short life path... In some settlements, people live only up to 16 years old. Girls give birth when they are still very young. In other settlements, women have been found who go through menopause as early as 28 years. A poor diet threatens their health, pygmies die even from chickenpox and measles.

To date, the total number of this people has not been established, according to some estimates, there are about 40 thousand, according to others - 200.

For a long time, the pygmies did not even know how to make fire, they carried the hearth with them. They are engaged in gathering and hunting.

Bushmen

These wild tribes live in Namibia, they are also found in Angola, South Africa and Botswana, Tanzania.

These people are classified as a capoid race, with lighter skin than blacks. There are many clicking sounds in the language.

Bushmen lead an almost vagrant lifestyle, constantly half-starved. The system of building a society does not imply the presence of leaders, but there are elders who are chosen from among the most intelligent and authoritative personalities of the community. This people does not have a cult of ancestors, but they are very afraid of the dead, therefore they conduct a unique burial ceremony. The diet contains ant larvae, the so-called "Bushman rice".

Today, most Bushmen work on farms and do little to maintain their former lifestyles.

Zulu

These are the wild tribes of Africa (southern part). It is believed that there are about 10 million Zulu. They speak the Zulu language, the most common language in South Africa.

Many representatives of this nationality have become adherents of Christianity, but many keep their own faith. According to the canons of the Zulu religion, death is the result of witchcraft, and all living things on the planet were created by the creator. This nation has preserved many traditions, in particular, believers can perform the rite of ablution about 3 times a day.

The Zulu are quite organized, they even have a king, today it is Goodwill Zvelantini. Each tribe consists of clans, which include even smaller communities. Each of them has its own leader, and in the family this role is played by the husband.

The most expensive ceremony of the wild tribes is marriage. To take a wife, a man will have to give her parents 100 kilograms of sugar, corn and 11 cows. For such gifts, you can rent an apartment in the suburbs of Durban, with a gorgeous view of the ocean. Therefore, there are a lot of bachelors in the tribes.

Korowai

Perhaps this is the most brutal tribe in the whole world. It was possible to discover this people only in the 90s of the last century.

The life of the wild tribe is very harsh; they still use the teeth and tusks of animals as weapons and tools. These people pierce ears and noses with the teeth of predators and live in impenetrable forests Papua - New Guinea... They sleep in trees, in huts, very similar to those that many built in childhood. And the forests here are so dense and impenetrable that the neighboring villages do not even know about another settlement located a few kilometers away.

A pig is considered a holy animal, the meat of which is eaten by the korowai only after the wild boar is old. The animal is used as a riding pony. Often the pig is taken from the mother and raised from childhood.

Women of the wild tribe are common, but sexual intercourse occurs only once a year, the remaining 364 days are not allowed to touch them.

The cult of the warrior flourishes among the Korowai people. This is a very hardy people, for several days in a row they can only eat larvae and worms. It is believed that they are cannibals, and the first travelers who managed to reach the settlement were simply eaten.

Now that the Korowai have learned about the existence of another society, they do not seek to get out of the forests, and everyone who gets here tells the legend that if they deviate from their traditions, there will be a terrible earthquake and the entire planet will perish. The Korowai scare away uninvited guests with tales of their bloodthirstiness, although so far there has been no confirmation of this.

Maasai

These are real noble warriors of the African continent. They are engaged in cattle breeding, but they never steal animals from neighbors and lower tribes. These people are able to protect themselves from lions and European conquerors, although in the 21st century, too much pressure from civilization, which is more and more advancing, led to the fact that the tribes are rapidly decreasing in number. Now children graze animals from almost 3 years of age, the entire household is on the women, and the remaining men mostly rest or repulse uninvited guests.

It is this people who traditionally pull back the earlobes and insert rounded objects the size of a good saucer into the lower lip.

Maori

The bloodthirsty tribes of New Zealand and the Cook Islands. In these places, the Maori are the indigenous population.

These people are cannibals who terrified more than one traveler. The path of development of the Maori society went in a different direction - from man to animal. The tribes were always located in areas protected by nature itself, additionally carrying out fortification work, creating multi-meter ditches and installing a palisade, on which the dried heads of enemies were always adorned. They are prepared thoroughly, cleansed of the brain, strengthen the nasal and eye sockets and bulges with special plates and smoked over low heat for about 30 hours.

Wild tribes of Australia

In this country, there are enough a large number of tribes living far from civilization and having interesting customs... For example, the men of the Arunta tribe in an interesting way show respect for each other, giving their wife to a friend for a short time. If the gifted man refuses, then enmity begins between the families.

And in one of the tribes of Australia in childhood boys have their foreskin cut open and the urinary canal pulled out, thus producing two genitals.

Amazon Indians

In the rainforests, according to the most conservative estimates, about 50 of the most diverse wild Indian tribes live.

Pirahu. This is one of the most undeveloped peoples on the planet. There are about 200 people in the settlement, they live in the Brazilian jungle. Aborigines use the most primitive language on the planet, they have no history and myths, they don't even have a number system.

Pirachus are not allowed to tell stories that did not happen to them. You can not enter new words and heard from other people. In the language there is no designation of animals and vegetation, flowers.

This people has never been seen in aggression, they live in trees, in huts. They often act as guides, but do not accept any objects of civilization.

Kayapo tribe. It is one of the wild tribes of the world that lives in the eastern part of the river basin. Their number is about 3 thousand people. They sacredly believe that they are controlled by a person who descended from heaven. Some of the Kayapo household items really resemble the space suits of astronauts. Despite the fact that the entire village walks in the nude, nevertheless, the god appears in a robe and even with a headdress.

Korubo. This people is perhaps the most unexplored of all the tribes in the world that live far from civilization. All residents are quite aggressive towards any guests. They are engaged in gathering and hunting, and often attack neighboring tribes. Even women take part in the battles. A distinctive feature of this tribe is that they do not decorate themselves and do not get tattoos, unlike most of the aborigines.

The life of the savage tribes is harsh enough. If a child is born with a cleft palate, then he is immediately killed, and this happens quite often. The child is often killed after he has grown up, if he suddenly gets sick.

The tribe lives in long premises characteristic of the Indians with several entrances. Several families live in such houses at once. Men of this tribe can have multiple wives.

The most basic problem of all wild tribes is the inexorable expansion of the habitats of civilized man. It is a huge risk that these practically primitive people will soon disappear, unable to withstand the onslaught of the modern world.

Amazingly, in our age of atomic energy, laser cannons and the exploration of Pluto, there are still primitive people who are almost unfamiliar with the outside world. Scattered throughout the earth except Europe great amount such tribes. Some live in complete isolation, perhaps not even knowing about the existence of other "two-legged". Others know and see more, but are in no hurry to make contact. And still others are ready to kill any stranger.

What about us, civilized people? Trying to "make friends" with them? Watch out for them carefully? Ignore completely?

It was on these days that the controversy resumed when the Peruvian authorities decided to make contact with one of the lost tribes. Defenders of the aborigines are strongly opposed, because after contact, they can die from diseases to which they have no immunity: it is not known whether they will agree to medical assistance.

Let's see who in question, and what other tribes infinitely far from civilization are found in the modern world.

1. Brazil

It is in this country that most of the non-contact tribes live. In just 2 years, from 2005 to 2007, their confirmed number increased by 70% at once (from 40 to 67), and today in the lists National Fund Indians (FUNAI) are listed for more than 80.

There are extremely small tribes, only 20-30 people, others may number 1,500. At the same time, all together they make up less than 1% of the population of Brazil, but the “ancestral lands” that are allotted to them are 13% of the country's territory (green spots on the map).


To find and keep track of isolated tribes, the authorities periodically fly over the dense forests of the Amazon. So in 2008, hitherto unknown savages were seen near the border with Peru. At first, anthropologists noticed from the plane their huts, which looked like elongated tents, as well as half-naked women and children.



But during the second flight, a few hours later, men with spears and bows, painted red from head to toe, appeared in the same place, and the same warlike woman, all black. They probably mistook the plane for an evil bird spirit.


Since then, the tribe has remained unexplored. Scientists only guess that it is very numerous and prosperous. The photo shows that people are generally healthy and well-fed, their baskets are full of roots and fruits, from the plane they even noticed something like orchards. It is possible that this people has existed for 10,000 years and has kept primitiveness ever since.

2. Peru

But the very tribe with which the Peruvian authorities want to come into contact are the Mashko-Piro Indians, who also live in the wilderness of the Amazonian forests on the territory national park Manu in the southeast of the country. They used to always reject outsiders, but in last years began to often leave the thicket into the "outside world". In 2014 alone, they were spotted more than 100 times in populated areas, especially along the banks of the river, from where they pointed to passers-by.


“They seem to be making contact themselves, and we can't pretend not to notice. They also have the right to do this, ”the government officials say. They emphasize that in no case will the tribe be forced to contact or to change the way of life.


Officially, Peruvian law prohibits contact with the lost tribes, of which there are no less than a dozen in the country. But many people, from ordinary tourists to Christian missionaries, who shared clothes and food with them, have already managed to "communicate" with mashko-piro. Maybe also because there is no punishment for violating the ban.


True, not all contacts were peaceful. In May 2015, mashko-piro came to one of the local villages and, meeting the residents, attacked them. One guy was killed instantly, pierced by an arrow. In 2011, members of the tribe killed another local and wounded a national park ranger with arrows. The authorities hope the contact will help prevent future deaths.

This is probably the only civilized Indian Mashko-pyro. As a child, local hunters stumbled upon him in the jungle and took him with them. Since then, he has been named Alberto Flores.

3. Andaman Islands (India)

The tiny island of this archipelago in the Bay of Bengal between India and Myanmar is inhabited by Sentinelese, extremely hostile to the outside world. Most likely, these are direct descendants of the first Africans who risked leaving the black continent about 60,000 years ago. Since then, this small tribe has been engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering. How they make a fire is unknown.


Their language has not been identified, but judging by its striking difference from all other Andaman dialects, these people have not come into contact with anyone for thousands of years. The size of their community (or scattered groups) has also not been established: presumably, from 40 to 500 people.


The Sentinelians are typical Negritos, as ethnologists call them: rather short people with very dark, almost black skin and short small curls of hair. Their main weapons are spears and bows with different kinds arrows. Observations have shown that they accurately hit a human-sized target from a distance of 10 meters. The tribe considers any strangers to be enemies. In 2006, they killed two fishermen, who were sleeping peacefully in a boat that accidentally washed ashore, and then met a search helicopter with a shower of arrows.


There were only a few "peaceful" contacts with the Sentinelese in the 1960s. Once, coconuts were left on the shore for them to check whether they would be planted or eaten. - They ate it. On another occasion, live pigs were "presented" - the savages immediately killed them and ... buried them. The only thing that seemed useful to them was the red buckets, as they were hastened to carry them inland. But exactly the same green buckets were not touched.


But do you know what is the strangest and most inexplicable? Despite their primitiveness and extremely primitive shelters, the Sentinelese in general survived the terrible earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004. But almost 300 thousand people died along the entire coast of Asia, which made this natural disaster the deadliest in modern history!

4. Papua New Guinea

The vast island of New Guinea in Oceania holds many unexplored secrets. Its inaccessible mountainous areas, covered with thick forests, only seem uninhabited - in fact, it is native home for many non-contact tribes. Due to the peculiarities of the landscape, they are hidden not only from civilization, but also from each other: it happens that there are only a few kilometers between two villages, but they are unaware of the neighborhood.


The tribes live so isolated that each has its own customs and language. Just think - linguists distinguish between about 650 Papuan languages, and in total more than 800 languages ​​are spoken in this country!


The same differences can be in their culture and way of life. Some tribes turn out to be relatively peaceful and generally friendly, like a funny people to our ears blasphemy, about which the Europeans learned only in 1935.


But there are some ominous rumors about others. There were cases when members of expeditions specially equipped to search for Papuan savages disappeared without a trace. This is how one of the richest American family members, Michael Rockefeller, disappeared in 1961. He separated from the group and is suspected to have been caught and eaten.

5. Africa

At the junction of the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan Several nationalities live, numbering about 200 thousand people, who are collectively called surma. They raise livestock, but do not roam and share common culture with very cruel and strange traditions.


For example, young men arrange stick fights for the sake of winning brides, which can result in serious injuries and even death. And the girls, decorating themselves for a future wedding, remove their lower teeth, pierce their lips and stretch them to fit a special plate. The larger it is, the more cattle will be given for the bride, so that the most desperate beauties manage to squeeze in a 40-centimeter dish!


True, in recent years, young people from these tribes began to learn something about the outside world, and more and more Surma girls now refuse such a ritual of "beauty". However, women and men continue to adorn themselves with curly scars, which they are very proud of.


In general, the acquaintance of these peoples with civilization is very uneven: they, for example, remain illiterate, but they quickly mastered the AK-47 assault rifles that came to them during civil war in Sudan.


And another one interesting detail... The first people from outside world Those who came into contact with surma in the 1980s were not Africans, but a group of Russian doctors. The natives then got scared, mistaking them for the living dead - after all, they had never seen white skin before!

It is believed that in the world there are no less than a hundred "isolated tribes" still living in the farthest corners of the world. The members of these tribes, who have preserved traditions long left behind by the rest of the world, provide anthropologists with an excellent opportunity to study in detail the path of development. different cultures over the centuries.

10. The Surma People

The Ethiopian Surma tribe avoided contact with the Western world for many years. However, they are quite famous in the world for their huge plates that they put on their lips. However, they did not want to hear about any government. While colonization, world wars and the struggle for independence were in full swing around them, the people of Surma lived in groups of several hundred people each, and continued to engage in their modest breeding of large cattle.

The first people who managed to establish contact with the people of Surm were several Russian doctors. They met the tribe in 1980. Due to the fact that the doctors were white-skinned, the members of the tribe at first thought that they were the living dead. One of the few pieces of technology that members of the Surma people have adapted into their lives is the AK-47, which they use to protect their livestock.

9. Peruvian tribe discovered by tourists


Wandering in the jungle of Peru, a group of tourists suddenly encountered members of an unknown tribe. The entire incident was filmed: the tribe tried to communicate with tourists, but due to the fact that the members of the tribe did not know either Spanish or English, they soon despaired of making contact and left the puzzled tourists where they found them.

After examining the tourist tape, the Peruvian authorities soon realized that a group of tourists had encountered one of the few tribes that had not yet been discovered by anthropologists. Scientists knew about their existence and searched for them unsuccessfully. long years, and tourists found them without even looking.

8. Lonely Brazilian


Slate magazine named it "the most isolated person on the planet". Somewhere in the thickets of the Amazon there is a tribe consisting of only one person. As well as Big Foot, this mysterious person disappears when scientists are about to discover it.

Why is he so popular, and why is he not left alone? It turns out that according to scientists, he is the last representative of the isolated tribe of the Amazon. He only person in a world that has preserved the customs and language of its people. Communicating with him will be tantamount to finding a precious treasure of information, part of which is the answer to the question of how he managed to live alone for so many decades.

7. Ramapo tribe (Ramapough Mountain Indians or The Jackson Whites)


During the 1700s, European settlers completed their colonization of the east coast North America... By this point, every tribe between Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River was added to the catalog famous peoples... As it turned out, all but one were listed in the catalog.

In the 1790s, a previously unknown tribe of Indians emerged from the forest just 56 kilometers from New York. They somehow managed to avoid contact with the settlers, despite some of the major battles such as the Seven Years' War and the War of Independence, which actually took place in their backyards. They became known as the "Jackson Whites" due to the fact that they had light color leather, and also due to the fact that they were believed to be derived from "Jacks" (a slang word for the British).

6. Vietnamese Ruc


In the course of the Vietnam War, unprecedented bombing raids took place in regions isolated at that time. After one particularly powerful American bombing raid, North Vietnamese soldiers were shocked to see a group of tribal members emerge from the jungle.

This was the first contact of the Ruk tribe with humans with advanced technology. Due to the fact that their home in the jungle was badly damaged, they decided to stay in modern Vietnam and not return to their traditional dwellings... However, the values ​​and traditions of the tribe, passed down from generation to generation over many centuries, did not like the Vietnamese government, which led to mutual hostility.

5. The last of the Native Americans


In 1911, the last Native American, untouched by civilization, calmly walked out of the forest in California, in full tribal attire - and was immediately arrested by the shocked police. His name was Ishi and he was a member of the Yahia tribe.

After interrogation by police, who managed to locate an interpreter from a local college, it was revealed that Ishi was the only surviving member of his tribe, after his tribe was destroyed by settlers three years earlier. After trying to survive alone, using only the gifts of nature, he finally decided to turn to other people for help.

Ishi was taken under his wing by a researcher from the University of Berkeley (Berkeley University). There, Ishi told the teaching staff all the secrets of his tribal life, and showed them many survival techniques, using only what nature gave. Many of these techniques have either been forgotten long ago or unknown to scientists altogether.

4. Brazilian tribes


The Brazilian government has tried to find out how many people live in isolated areas of the Amazonian lowlands in order to put them on the population register. Therefore, a government plane equipped with photographic equipment regularly flew over the jungle, trying to locate and count the people below it. The tireless flights really gave a result, albeit a very unexpected one.

In 2007, an aircraft performing a routine low flight in order to obtain photographs, unexpectedly fell under a rain of arrows, which a previously unknown tribe fired at the aircraft from bows. Then, in 2011, satellite scanning registered several specks in that corner of the jungle in which the presence of people was not even expected: as it turned out, the specks were still people.

3. Tribes of New Guinea


Somewhere in New Guinea, there are likely dozens of languages, cultures and tribal customs that are still unknown. modern man... However, due to the fact that this area is almost unexplored, and also due to the fact that the nature and intentions of these tribes are vague, with often slipping messages of cannibalism, wild part New Guinea is rarely explored. Despite the fact that new tribes are often discovered, many expeditions aimed at tracking down such tribes never reach them, or sometimes simply disappear.

For example, in 1961, Michael Rockefeller set out to find some of the lost tribes. Rockefeller, the American heir to one of the largest fortunes in the world, was separated from his group and, apparently, captured and eaten by members of the flame.

2. The Pintupi Nine


In 1984, an unknown group of Aborigines was discovered at a settlement in Western Australia. After they escaped, the Pinupian Nine, as they were later called, were hunted down by those who spoke their language and told them that there was a place where water runs from pipes and there is always an adequate supply of food. Most of them decided to stay in modern city, several of them became artists working in the style of traditional art. However, one out of nine people, named Yari Yari, returned to the Gibson Desert, where he lives to this day.

1. The Sentinelese


The Sentinelians are a tribe of about 250 people who live on the North Sentinel Island, located between India and Thailand. Almost nothing is known about this tribe, because as soon as the Sentinelese see that someone has sailed to them, they meet the visitor with a shower of arrows.

Several peaceful meetings with this tribe in 1960 gave us almost everything we know about their culture. The coconuts brought to the island as a gift were eaten rather than planted. Live pigs were shot with arrows and buried without being eaten. The most popular items among the Sentinelese were red buckets, which were quickly taken apart by members of the tribe - however, exactly the same green buckets remained in place.

Anyone who wanted to land on their island had to first write their will. The National Geographic team was forced to turn around after the team leader was shot in the thigh and two local guides were killed.

The Sentinelese have earned a reputation for their ability to experience natural disasters- unlike the set modern people living in similar conditions. For example, this coastal tribe successfully escaped the effects of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which wreaked havoc and terror in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.