An Amazon tribe who lived in a total isolation for about 26 years and dubbed as “the most lonely man in the world” has died in Brazil, officials said.
According to The Guardian, the mysterious man was the last member left of the original group that was not contacted in Brazil. He is known as “Man of the Hole” because he spent a lot of his existence hiding or taking refuge in the hole he dug in the ground.
The Brazilian Indigenous Affairs Agency (Funai), which monitors the man’s welfare from a distance, tells that the man’s body was found on August 23 on a hanging bed outside his rafting hut. There are no signs of violence, said officials. They also added that because he had placed brightly colored feathers around his body, it was believed that the man was ready for his death.
It is estimated that the man is around 60 years old. BBC reported that he was the last traditional group living in the Indigenous Region of Tanaru in the state of Rondonia, which borders Bolivia.
Brazilian federal police will now do an autopsy on the man’s body and produce a report about the findings.
Officials believe that “Man of the Hole” is the only occupant of the Tanaru region, who is considered one of the most cruel regions in Brazil. According to the Survival International non-profit organization, all tribes have been slaughtered in a series of attacks allegedly carried out by land farmers who are thirsty for land since the 1970s, with several last members destroyed in 1995.
However, very few are known about this native community because the only survival of the massacre has rejected all contact efforts. “He died without revealing ethnicity where he came from, or the motivation of the hole he explored in his house,” observatory for human rights from indigenous people (opi) who are isolated and recently wrote about knowing the death of the man.
“The Man of the Hole” was last filmed by the Government Team in 2018 when he was seen using a sharpened tool like a ax to be hacked on a tree.