A provided still from a 2018 FUNAI video, filmed during a government monitoring mission, shows the man chopping a tree. (Credit: FUNAI) A man who was the last surviving member of an uncontacted indigenous tribe in Brazil — often referred to as the "Man of the Hole" — has died after living in isolation for over two decades, according to the country’s indigenous agency.
The man received this moniker for his habit of constructing deep holes, some with sharpened stakes in them to trap animals, Survival International, a nonprofit protecting tribal rights, said in a statement.
He would also dig holes inside structures to hide in, according to a previous account written by Fiona Watson, Survival’s Research and Advocacy Director.
The man remained the only inhabitant of the Tanaru indigenous territory in Brazil’s Rondonia state, located in the western part of the Amazon.