Extraordinary pictures have emerged from Brazil showing what's claimed to be a previously undiscovered Indian tribe in the Amazon jungle. People are shown aiming their bows and arrows at an aircraft which flew over their village near the border with Peru. There are believed to be more than a hundred uncontacted tribes worldwide, most of them in Brazil and Peru. From Brazil, Gary Duffy reports.
Could these be images of one of the world's last "lost" tribes? Deep in the Brazilian jungle it's thought these pictures show members of an unidentified Indian community, clearly startled by the intrusion of a small plane flying above. Carrying spears and bows and arrows, these people have had no contact with the outside world.
In the 21st century they live lifestyles which may not have changed significantly for a thousand years. "The most important thing is that this is a new discovery of people who've been living there a long time photographed in their village." It's thought there are around a hundred uncontacted tribes left in the world.
An uncertain number of these isolated communities are living in Brazil. This newly discovered group lives in a remote area, close to the border with Peru. These arrows and this bow belong to a man who's never seen a European face. So does this house. Almost everyone else has been reached by the outside world, but this was David Attenborough making one such contact in the 1970s.
Every one of them had two ritualpunctures in his nose and he had pegs in them. Even today Indian communities in Brazil are living traditional lifestyles, as the BBC's Bruce Perry discovered. But these are poor communities who often need the support of government agencies and many Brazilian Indians are finding the old way of doing things are being changed.
Illegallogging and mining are among the pressures which have pushed some Indian communities off their land and even threatened their livelihood. For the remote Indian communities which even now are just being discovered, the outside world seems more of a threat than an opportunity. Activists say if their land is not protected, they could soon face extinction. Gary Duffy BBC News, Sao Paulo.
※ more of A than B : B라기 보다는 오히려 A ex. He was more of a hindrance than a help. 그는 도움이 되기보다는 오히려 방해가 되었다. cf. I was hoping for more of a change. 더 많은 변화를 바랬어. * see more of someone (=see someone more often): I hope we'll see more of you when you're finished your course.
extraordinary : 비상한, 보통이 아닌, 비범한, 놀 라운, 엄청난 emerge : (물·어둠 속 따위에서) 나오다, 나타나다, (해 따위가) 떠오르 다 [from, out of] ex. The full moon will soon emerge from behind the clouds. 보름달이 구름 뒤편에서 곧 나타날 것이다. ex. A touchy question emerged. 골치 아픈 문제가 생겼다. tribe : 부족, 종족, ... 족, 패, 동아리, 수많은 사람 [동물] 들, 무리 (a large group of people) * tribal 종족 [특유] 의, 부족의 bow : 활,(배의) 이물, 선수, (비행기의) 기수 arrow : 화살 unidentified : 신원 미상의, 확인되지 않은 startle : 깜짝 놀라게 하다 * startling : 깜짝 놀라게 하는, 놀라운 (surprising) intrusion : 1 (의견 등의) 강요, (장소에의) 침 입, (사생활) 침해, 방해 (v. intrude) spear : 창, 창으로 찌르다 photograph : 사진, 사진을 찍다, 촬영하다 isolate : 고립시키다, 격리 [분리] 시키다 ex. Important witnesses are isolated from the media for their own safety. isolate : 고립시키다, 격리 [분리] 시키다 ex. Important witnesses are isolated from the media for their own safety. remote : 먼, 멀리 떨어진, 외딴 (secluded), <가망가능성 등이> 희박한 ex. remote possibility 희박한 가능성 ritual :[종교적] 의식, 예배식, 의식적인 행사 (관습), 의식의, 관례 (관습)의 / something you do regularly and always in the same way ex. Their meetings became a weekly ritual. puncture :찌르기, 구멍을 뚫기, 구멍, ~을 찌르다, ~에 구멍 을 뚫다 peg : (나무나 금속의) 못, 나무못, 쐐기못, (천 막용) 말뚝, ~에 나무못[말뚝]을 박다, 나무못으로 죄다 illegal : 불법의, 불법입국자 (opp. legal) * illegal practice : 불법행위, 불법관행 log : 통나무, <재목을> 베어내다, 벌채하 다, 일지를 쓰다, 기록하다 ex. The system automatically logs all long-distance phone calls. * log on : (= log in) to start using a computer system, for example by typing a particular word ex. Customers pay to log on and gossip with other users. mine : 광산, 지뢰 (=land ~), 수뢰, 기뢰, 채굴 하다, (광석석탄 등을 채굴하기 위해) 갱도를 파다, 지뢰 [기뢰] 를 부설하다, < 자료 등을> 찾다, 조사하다 ex. The road was heavily mined. ex. The Internet is a mine of information on gardening. livelihood : 생계 (의 수단) / something such as your work that provides the money you need to live ex. a development that threatens the livelihood of local small farmers extinction : 소화 (消火), 소등, (종족· 생물 등의) 멸종, 사멸, 절멸 * extinct : <불 등이> 꺼진 (extinguished), 멸종된
