In the Brazilian state of Rondonia, the last representative of the primitive tribe Tanar, who refused any contact with civilization, died. About the death of a man known as the “Man from the Hole” and “the loneliest man in the world” to the agency Publica reported in the National Fund of Indians (FUNAI).
The body of the Indian was discovered by one of the locals. He said that he “found the native lying in a hammock dressed in macaw feathers, as if he was waiting for death.”
The Burrow Man tribe was supposedly wiped out in clashes with farmers, lumberjacks and other indigenous peoples of the Amazon in the 1970s and 90s. The last representative of this civilization was discovered in 1996. Through the efforts of activists, a ban was imposed on people visiting the jungle with an area of 8 thousand hectares, where the Indian lived.
He got his nickname “The Man from the Hole” for digging deep holes and sticking stakes into them. They served for hunting, as well as for the protection of the territory. The man did not trust anyone, as he feared for his life. There is an assumption that his fellow tribesmen died by taking poisoned food from representatives of civilization.
For all these years, the researchers managed only once from afar to film an aborigine on video. The man, who appeared to be 50 years old, was in excellent physical condition and was cutting down trees.