Amazon activists mourn death of ‘man of the hole’, last of his tribe

Man resisted all attempts to contact him, laying traps and firing arrows at anyone who came too close

An unidentified and charismatic Indigenous man thought to have been the last of his tribe has died in the Brazilian Amazon, causing consternation among activists lamenting the loss of another ethnic language and culture.

The solitary and mysterious man was known only as the Indio do Buraco, or the Indigenous man of the hole", because he spent much of his existence hiding or sheltering in pits he dug in the ground.