Tribes that live in our time. The wildest tribe on the planet, or death to strangers

The people that will be discussed in this article manage to ignore the civilized world and live as if there had never been anyone else in the whole world...

The Sentinelese tribe settled on North Sentinel Island, which is nominally part of India. It is customary to call this people the same as the island, because no one has any idea how these people call themselves.

In truth, nothing else is known about them either. After a terrible tsunami hit the island in 2004, several helicopters were sent there to take pictures and make sure that the island was still inhabited.

How did they manage to avoid contact with modern civilization for so long?

This is explained very simply. Take a look at this picture taken from a helicopter:

Other members of the tribe are also aggressive. They don’t make contact, and just a little - they immediately grab the bow and arrows.

In 2006, a boat with two fishermen was carried by the current into shallow water near the island. The Sentinelese killed them and buried them on the shore. Helicopters determined the place of burial of the unfortunate, but could not land, because at the sight of the helicopter, the local population, as you may have noticed, immediately "opened fire". Despite the fact that the natives apparently have no idea what a helicopter is, they tried hard to get the incomprehensible giant iron bird with their arrows. Well, they do not like guests and that's it.

The police, who, in theory, should go and pick up the bodies of the unfortunate fishermen, flatly refuse to do this, stating that as soon as they approach the island, they will immediately be bombarded with poisoned darts and arrows - which, in general, can be considered a good reason.

Even our ancestors, who were more courageous than you and me, believed that it would be more expensive to get involved with these unsociable people: even Marco Polo described them as "the most cruel and bloodthirsty people, always ready to grab and eat anyone who falls into their hands."

In other words, for hundreds of years, when the whole world was busy winning land from each other, these guys earned such a bad reputation that they recaptured different kind conquerors any desire to meddle there. In the end, all "progressive mankind" decided to leave these crazy cannibals alone.

2. Korowai

This tribe lives in southeastern Papua. They first became aware of the existence of other people in the 1970s, when they were discovered by a group of archaeologists and missionaries. At that time they still used stone tools and built their dwellings on trees. However, nothing has changed since then.

Korowai tell all guests from the civilized world that if at least one of them ever changes their traditions, then the whole Earth will inevitably perish from a monstrous earthquake. It is not clear, either this is such devotion to traditions, or just a way to get rid of smart people from the "mainland", who are always trying to teach them how to live.

Be that as it may, they manage to remain in the same state just fine. The missionaries poked their heads a couple of times with their enlightenment, but then decided to leave them alone. What if, who knows, the earthquake is still not quite nonsense?

Korowai live in such an impenetrable area, literally - for high mountains and dark forests, that even their own villages practically do not contact each other, let alone the outside world. When the tribe decided to visit the census office in 2010, they had to travel for two weeks on foot, then by boat from the nearest (and in fact very remote) villages.

Korowai especially do not show that they do not like visits from outside. And in order for the uninvited guests to get out as soon as possible, they come up with all sorts of tricks. In addition to frightening with a terrible, terrible earthquake, which will definitely happen as soon as the first cow puts on his pants, they like to scare, talking about their bloodthirsty traditions.

But the most elegant way was fooled by the Australian newsmakers, who poked their head into the cows in 2006. The tribe sent a boy to the importunate strangers, who told reporters a heartbreaking story about how cannibals were chasing him, and that at the next meal he should become the main dish of the tribe.

After the story was taped and the film crew hurriedly retreated, the next journalists arrived, for whom the exact same performance was arranged with the rescue of the "poor boy".

Scientists who have studied the tribe assure that these people are simply all right with a sense of humor, that there is no smell of cannibalism here. Just funny people who live in trees and love practical jokes.

3. The loneliest person in the world

This man has been living in a Brazilian forest in complete isolation for at least fifteen years.

He builds palm huts for himself and digs rectangular holes in the ground one and a half meters deep. Why he needs these holes one can only guess, because with any attempt to establish contact, he abandons his familiar place and finds a new one in order to build exactly the same hut and dig exactly the same hole.

No one in the area is building anything like this, from which the scientists concluded that this is the last surviving representative of some disappeared tribe.

How does he manage to ignore the modern world for so long?

In 1988 new constitution Brazil granted the local Indians the rights to the lands of their original settlements. In theory, the idea seemed just wonderful. But in practice... When by law it became forbidden to "force to resettle" tribes in other places, they began to simply exterminate them.

Apparently, it was this fate that befell the fellow tribesmen of our hero: the first meeting with the modern world ended for him with the death of everyone he knew. Who wants to make contact with monsters who have come up with perfect weapons to destroy your loved ones?

4. Old Believers

In 1978, Soviet geologists searching for iron ore in the remote corners of Siberia stumbled upon a log cabin. The family that lived there had no idea about the existence of civilization, dressed in matting and ate from home-made dishes. At the sight of the members of the expedition, they were horrified, and began to shout something like "It's all for our sins!"

Later it turned out that the Lykov family (as they called themselves) were not the only Siberian hermits. Similar group people lived in the taiga in complete isolation, at least until 1990.

All these people turned out to be Old Believers. In the 17th century, during the split of the Russian church, they fled from the massacre and settled away from the outside world. And they lived like that for centuries. Siberia is too vast and inhospitable - it would never occur to anyone to comb it to find a couple of dozen fugitives.

Agafya Lykova, 2009

5. Tribe Mashko-Piro

People from the Mashko-Piro tribe - half-naked and generally similar to immigrants from the prehistoric era, have recently begun to appear in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bone of the Peruvian rivers popular with Western tourists.

Previously, any attempts to approach them were stopped by a hail of burning arrows. No one knows why they suddenly decided to discover their existence on their own. According to experts who have been in contact with them, so far their keenest interest is mainly in metal cooking pots and machete knives.

How did they manage to stay away from civilization for so long?

The Peruvian government itself tried to limit contacts with the tribe and forbade tourists to go ashore near the habitats of savages. The idea was to protect these people from pesky anthropologists and greedy businessmen who are ready to make money on anything.

Unfortunately, there were still and are cunning private travel companies offering "human safari" to customers.

6. Pintubi aborigines

In 1984, a small group of Pintubi people met a white man in the desert. This would not be unusual if we do not take into account the fact that not a single person from this tribe had ever seen one before. white man, and that the first white settlers arrived in Australia in 1788. Later, one of the pingtubis explained that at first he mistook the "pink man" for an evil spirit. The first meeting did not go very smoothly, but then the natives softened, and decided that the "pinks" might even be useful.

They, needless to say, were very lucky to be found so late. They wandered through the deserts all those years when it was easy to fall into slavery or straight to the next world, and met with Western culture exactly when she was already ripe to ride them in a jeep and treat them to Coca-Cola.

How did they manage to avoid civilization for so long?

There are two reasons for this: 1) they are nomads and 2) they roam the deserts of Australia, where it is generally quite difficult to meet a person.

This group may never have been discovered at all. Shortly before the first meeting with a white man, the Pintubi accidentally met with "civilized" natives. Unfortunately, appearance nomads with human hair loincloths and two-meter spears was too exotic even for indigenous Australians. One of the "civilized" ones fired into the air and the pingubis fled.

It seems to us that we are all literate, smart people We enjoy all the benefits of civilization. And it is hard to imagine that there are still tribes on our planet that are not far from the Stone Age.

Tribes of Papua New Guinea and Barneo. Here they still live according to the rules adopted 5 thousand years ago: men go naked, and women cut off their fingers. There are only three tribes still engaged in cannibalism, these are Yali, Vanuatu and Carafai. . These tribes with great pleasure eat both their enemies and tourists, as well as their own old people and deceased relatives.

In the highlands of the Congo lives a tribe of pygmies. They call themselves Mong. The amazing thing is that they have cold blood, like reptiles. And in cold weather they were able to fall into suspended animation, like lizards.

On the banks of the Amazonian river Meiki lives a small (300 individuals) tribe Piraha.

The inhabitants of this tribe do not have time. They have no calendars, no clocks, no past and no tomorrow. They have no leaders, they decide everything together. There is no concept of "mine" or "yours", everything is common: husbands, wives, children. Their language is very simple, only 3 vowels and 8 consonants, there is also no counting, they cannot even count to 3.

Sapadi Tribe (Ostrich Tribe).

They have an amazing property: there are only two fingers on their feet, and both are big! This disease (but can this unusual structure of the foot be called that?) Is called claw syndrome and is caused, according to doctors, by incest. It is possible that the cause of it is some unknown virus.

Sinta larga. They live in the Amazon Valley (Brazil).

Family (husband with several wives and children) usually have own house, which is abandoned when the land in the village becomes less fertile and game leaves the forests. Then they move out and look for a new site for the house. When moving, Sinta larga change their names, but each member of the tribe keeps the “true” name a secret (only mother and father know it). Sinta larga have always been famous for their aggressiveness. They are constantly at war both with neighboring tribes and with "foreigners" - white settlers. Fighting and killing is an integral part of their traditional way of life.

Korubo live in the western part of the Amazon Valley.

In this tribe, literally, the strongest survive. If a child is born with some kind of defect, or falls ill with a contagious disease, he is simply killed. They know neither bows nor spears. They are armed with clubs and blowpipes that shoot poisoned arrows. Korubo are spontaneous, like small children. As soon as they smile, they start laughing. If they notice fear on your face, they begin to look around warily. This is almost a primitive tribe, which civilization has not touched at all. But it is impossible to feel calm in their environment, as they can become furious at any moment.

There are approximately 100 more tribes that cannot read and write, do not know what television, cars are, moreover, they still practice cannibalism. They shoot them from the air, and then mark these places on the map. Not in order to study or enlighten them, but in order not to let anyone near them. Contact with them is undesirable, not only because of their aggressiveness, but also for the reasons that wild tribes may not be immune from the diseases of modern man.

It is believed that there are no less than a hundred "isolated tribes" in the world, still living in the farthest corners of the world. The members of these tribes, who have preserved traditions long left behind by the rest of the world, provide anthropologists with an excellent opportunity to study in detail the ways of development different cultures for many centuries.

10. The Surma People

The Ethiopian Surma tribe avoided contact with the Western world for many years. However, they are quite known to the world for their huge plates that they put on their lips. However, they did not want to hear about any government. While colonization, world wars and the struggle for independence were in full swing around them, the people of Surma lived in groups of several hundred people each, and continued to engage in their modest cattle ranching.

The first people who managed to establish contact with the people of Surma were several Russian doctors. They met the tribe in 1980. Due to the fact that the doctors were white-skinned, the members of the tribe at first thought they were the living dead. One of the few pieces of equipment that members of the Surma people have adapted into their lives is the AK-47, which they use to protect their livestock.

Source 9Peruvian tribe discovered by tourists


Wandering in the jungles of Peru, a group of tourists suddenly encountered members of an unknown tribe. The whole incident was filmed: the tribe tried to communicate with the tourists, but because the members of the tribe did not know either Spanish or English, they soon despaired of making contact and left the puzzled tourists where they found them.

After studying the footage recorded by the tourists, the Peruvian authorities soon realized that the group of tourists had encountered one of the few tribes that had not yet been discovered by anthropologists. Scientists knew about their existence and unsuccessfully searched for them long years, and tourists found them without even looking.

8. Single Brazilian


Slate magazine called him "the most isolated person on the planet." Somewhere in the thickets of the Amazon there is a tribe consisting of only one person. Like Bigfoot, this mysterious man disappears just as scientists are about to discover him.

Why is he so popular, and why won't he be left alone? It turns out that according to scientists it is last representative isolated Amazon tribe. He is the only person in the world who has preserved the customs and language of his people. Communication with him will be tantamount to finding a treasure trove of information, part of which is the answer to the question of how he managed to live alone for so many decades.

7. Tribe Ramapo (Ramapough Mountain Indians or The Jackson Whites)


During the 1700s, European settlers completed their colonization of the east coast. North America. By this point, every tribe in between Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River was added to the catalog famous peoples. As it turned out, all but one were listed in the catalogue.

In the 1790s, no one before that famous tribe Indians came out of the forest just 56 kilometers from New York. They somehow managed to avoid contact with the settlers, despite some biggest battles, such as the Seven Years' War and the War of Independence, which actually took place in their backyards. They became known as "Jackson Whites" due to the fact that they had light color skin, and also due to the fact that they were believed to be descended from "Jacks" (slang for the British).

6. Vietnamese Ruk tribe (Vietnamese Ruc)


During the Vietnam War, unprecedented bombardments of regions isolated at that time took place. After one particularly heavy American bombing raid, North Vietnamese soldiers were shocked to see a group of tribal members emerge from the jungle.

This was the first contact of the Ruk tribe with people with advanced technology. Due to the fact that their jungle home was badly damaged, they decided to stay in present-day Vietnam and not return to their homes. traditional dwellings. However, the values ​​and traditions of the tribe, passed down from generation to generation for many centuries, did not please the Vietnamese government, which led to mutual hostility.

5. The Last of the Native Americans


In 1911, the last Native American untouched by civilization calmly walked out of the forest in California, in full tribal attire - and was promptly arrested by the shocked police. His name was Ishi and he was a member of the Yahia tribe.

After interrogation by the police, who were able to locate a local college interpreter, it was revealed that Ishi was the only survivor of his tribe after his tribe had been massacred by settlers three years earlier. After he tried to survive alone, using only the gifts of nature, he finally decided to turn to other people for help.

Ishi took under his wing a researcher from the University of Berkeley (Berkeley University). There, Ishi told the teaching staff all the secrets of his tribal life, and showed them many survival techniques, using only what nature gave. Many of these techniques were either long forgotten or unknown to scientists at all.

4 Brazilian Tribes


The Brazilian government has been trying to figure out how many people live in isolated areas of the Amazonian lowland in order to put them on the population register. Therefore, a government aircraft equipped with photographic equipment regularly flew over the jungle, trying to detect and count the people below it. Tireless flights really gave a result, albeit a very unexpected one.

In 2007, an aircraft on a routine low flight to take photographs was unexpectedly hit by a rain of arrows from a previously unknown tribe firing bows at the aircraft. Then, in 2011, satellite scans picked up a few specks in a corner of the jungle that wasn't even expected to contain humans: as it turns out, the specks were humans after all.

3. Tribes of New Guinea


Somewhere in New Guinea, dozens of languages, cultures and tribal customs are likely to remain that are still unknown. modern man. However, due to the fact that this area is almost unexplored, and also because the nature and intentions of these tribes are uncertain, with often slipping reports of cannibalism, the wild part of New Guinea is very rarely explored. Despite the fact that new tribes are often discovered, many expeditions aimed at tracking down such tribes never reach them, or sometimes simply disappear.

For example, in 1961, Michael Rockefeller set out to find some of the lost tribes. Rockefeller, the American heir to one of the greatest fortunes in the world, was separated from his group and apparently captured and eaten by members of the flame.

2. The Pintupi Nine


In 1984, an unknown group of Aboriginal people was discovered near a settlement in Western Australia. After they fled, the Pinupi Nine, as they were later called, were hunted down by those who spoke their language and told them that there was a place where water ran from pipes and there was always an ample supply of food. Most of them decided to stay in the modern city, a few of them became artists working in the style of traditional art. However, one out of nine, named Yari Yari, returned to the Gibson Desert, where he lives to this day.

1 The Sentinelese


The Sentinelese are a tribe of about 250 people who live on North Sentinel Island, between India and Thailand. Almost nothing is known about this tribe, because as soon as the Sentinelese see that someone has sailed to them, they meet the visitor with a hail of arrows.

A few peaceful encounters with this tribe in 1960 have given us practically everything we know about their culture. The coconuts brought to the island as gifts were eaten, not planted. Live pigs were shot with arrows and buried without being eaten. The most popular items among the Sentinelese were red buckets, which were quickly taken apart by members of the tribe - however, exactly the same green buckets remained in place.

Anyone who wanted to land on their island had to write their will first. The National Geographic team was forced to turn around after the team leader was shot in the thigh and two local guides were killed.

The Sentinelese have earned a reputation for their ability to survive natural disasters - unlike many modern people who live in similar conditions. For example, this coastal tribe successfully escaped the effects of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which wreaked havoc and terror in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

It's amazing, but in this age of atomic energy, laser guns and Pluto exploration, there are still primitive people almost unaware of the outside world. Scattered all over the earth, except Europe, great amount such tribes. Some live in complete isolation, perhaps not even knowing about the existence of other "bipeds". Others know and see more, but are in no hurry to make contact. And still others are ready to kill any stranger.

What about us civilized people? Trying to "make friends" with them? Should you watch them carefully? Completely ignore?

Just in these days, disputes resumed when the authorities of Peru decided to make contact with one of the lost tribes. Aboriginal defenders are strongly against it, because after contact they can die from diseases to which they have no immunity: it is not known whether they will agree to medical care.

Let's see who we are talking about, and what other tribes, infinitely far from civilization, are found in the modern world.

1. Brazil

It is in this country that most non-contact tribes live. In just 2 years, from 2005 to 2007, their confirmed number increased immediately by 70% (from 40 to 67), and today they are on the lists National Fund Indians (FUNAI) are already more than 80.

There are extremely small tribes, only 20-30 people each, others can number as many as 1.5 thousand. At the same time, all together they make up less than 1% of the population of Brazil, but the "original lands" assigned to them are 13% of the country's territory (green spots on the map).


To search for and account for isolated tribes, authorities periodically fly around the dense forests of the Amazon. So in 2008, hitherto unknown savages were seen near the border with Peru. First, anthropologists noticed from the plane their huts, similar to elongated tents, as well as half-naked women and children.



But during a repeated flight a few hours later, men with spears and bows, painted red from head to toe, and the same warlike woman, all black, appeared at the same place. They probably mistook the plane for an evil bird spirit.


Since then, the tribe has remained unexplored. Scientists only guess that it is very numerous and prosperous. The photo shows that people are generally healthy and well-fed, their baskets are full of roots and fruits, from the plane they even noticed something like orchards. It is possible that this people has existed for 10,000 years and since then has kept primitive.

2. Peru

But the very tribe with which the Peruvian authorities want to make contact is the Mashko-Piro Indians, who also live in the wilderness of the Amazonian forests in the territory national park Manu in the southeast of the country. They used to always reject outsiders, but in last years often began to leave the thicket in the "outside world". In 2014 alone, they were spotted more than 100 times in populated areas, especially along the banks of the river, from where they pointed to passers-by.


“It seems that they themselves are making contact, and we cannot pretend that we do not notice this. They also have the right to do so,” the government says. They emphasize that in no case will the tribe be forced either to contact or to change their lifestyle.


Officially, Peruvian law forbids contact with lost tribes, of which there are at least a dozen in the country. But many have already managed to “talk” with Mashko-Piro, from ordinary tourists to Christian missionaries, who shared clothes and food with them. Maybe also because there is no punishment for violating the ban.


True, not all contacts were peaceful. In May 2015, mashko-piros came to one of the local villages and, having met the inhabitants, attacked them. One guy was killed on the spot, pierced by an arrow. In 2011, members of the tribe killed another local and wounded a national park ranger with arrows. Authorities hope the contact will help prevent future deaths.

This is probably the only civilized Indian Mashko-Piro. As a child, local hunters stumbled upon him in the jungle and took him with them. Since then, he has been named Alberto Flores.

3. Andaman Islands (India)

A tiny island of this archipelago in the Bay of Bengal between India and Myanmar is inhabited by extremely hostile to the outside world, the Sentinelese. Most likely, these are the direct descendants of the first Africans who ventured to leave the black continent about 60,000 years ago. Since then, this small tribe has been engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering. How they make fire is unknown.


Their language is not identified, but judging by its striking difference from all other Andamanese dialects, these people did not come into contact with anyone for thousands of years. The size of their community (or scattered groups) is also not established: presumably, from 40 to 500 people.


The Sentinelese are typical Negritos, as ethnologists call them: rather short people with very dark, almost black skin and short, fine curls of hair. Their main weapons are spears and bows with different types arrows Observations have shown that they accurately hit the target of human growth from a distance of 10 meters. Any outsiders are considered enemies by the tribe. In 2006, they killed two fishermen who were sleeping peacefully in a boat that accidentally washed up on their shore, and then met a search helicopter with a hail of arrows.


There were only a few "peaceful" contacts with the Sentinelese in the 1960s. Once, coconuts were left on the shore for them to see if they would plant them or eat them. - Ate. Another time they "gave" live pigs - the savages immediately killed them and ... buried them. The only thing that seemed useful to them was red buckets, as they were hurried to carry them deep into the island. And exactly the same green buckets were not touched.


But you know what is the strangest and most inexplicable thing? Despite their primitiveness and extremely primitive shelters, the Sentinelese generally survived the terrible earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004. But along the entire coast of Asia, almost 300 thousand people died then, which made it disaster deadliest in modern history!

4. Papua New Guinea

The vast island of New Guinea in Oceania holds many unexplored secrets. Its hard-to-reach mountainous regions, covered with dense forests, only seem uninhabited - in fact, this is the home of many non-contact tribes. Due to the peculiarities of the landscape, they are hidden not only from civilization, but also from each other: it happens that there are only a few kilometers between two villages, but they are unaware of the neighborhood.


The tribes live in such isolation that each has its own customs and its own language. Just think - linguists distinguish about 650 Papuan languages, and in total more than 800 languages ​​are spoken in this country!


The same differences may be in their culture and way of life. Some tribes turn out to be relatively peaceful and generally friendly, like a nation funny to our ears. the fuck, which Europeans learned about only in 1935.


But the most sinister rumors circulate about others. There were cases when members of expeditions specially equipped to search for Papuan savages disappeared without a trace. This is how one of the richest American family members, Michael Rockefeller, disappeared in 1961. He separated from the group and is suspected to have been caught and eaten.

5. Africa

At the junction of the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan, several nationalities live, numbering about 200 thousand people, who are collectively called Surma. They raise cattle, but do not roam and share common culture with very cruel and strange traditions.


Young men, for example, for the sake of winning brides, arrange stick fights, which can result in serious injuries and even death. And the girls, decorating themselves to future wedding, lower teeth are removed, the lip is pierced and stretched to fit a special plate. The larger it is, the more cattle will be given for the bride, so that the most desperate beauties manage to squeeze in a 40-centimeter dish!


True, in recent years, the youth of these tribes began to learn something about the outside world, and that’s all. more girls surma now refuse such a ritual of "beauty". However, women and men continue to adorn themselves with curly scars, which they are very proud of.


In general, the acquaintance of these peoples with civilization is very uneven: for example, they remain illiterate, but they quickly mastered the AK-47 assault rifles that came to them during civil war in Sudan.


And one more interesting detail. The first people from the outside world to come into contact with Surma in the 1980s were not Africans, but a group of Russian doctors. The natives then got scared, mistaking them for the walking dead - after all, they had never seen white skin before!

Surprisingly, there are still the wildest tribes of the Amazon and Africa, who were still able to survive the onset of a ruthless civilization. It is we who are surfing the Internet here, struggling to conquer thermonuclear energy and flying farther and farther into space, and these few remnants of prehistoric times lead the same way of life that was familiar to them and our ancestors a hundred thousand years ago. In order to fully immerse yourself in the atmosphere of wildlife, it’s not enough just to read the article and look at the pictures, you need to go to Africa yourself, for example, by ordering a safari in Tanzania.

The wildest tribes of the Amazon

1. Piraha

The Piraha tribe lives on the banks of the Mayhe River. Approximately 300 natives are engaged in gathering and hunting. This tribe was discovered by the Catholic missionary Daniel Everett. He lived next to them for several years, after which he finally lost faith in God and became an atheist. His first contact with the feast took place in 1977. Trying to convey the word of God to the natives, he began to study their language and quickly achieved success in this. But the deeper he sank into primitive culture the more surprised.
Piraha have a very strange language: there is no indirect speech, words denoting colors and numerals (everything that is more than two is “a lot” for them). They did not create, as we do, myths about the creation of the world, they do not even have a calendar, but for all this, their intelligence is not weaker than ours. Piraha did not think of private property, they do not have stocks - they immediately eat the caught prey or harvested fruits, so they do not rack their brains over storage and planning for the future. To us, such views seem primitive, however, Everett came to a different conclusion. Living one day and what nature gives, feasts are freed from fears for the future and all sorts of worries with which we burden our souls. Therefore, they are happier than us, so why do they need gods?

2. Sinta larga

Lives in Brazil wild tribe Sinta larga of about 1500 people. Once it lived in the jungle of rubber plants, but their massive cutting down led to the fact that Sinta larga moved to nomadic life. They are engaged in hunting, fishing and collecting gifts of nature. Sinta larga are polygamous - men have several wives. During his life, a man gradually acquires several names that characterize either his qualities or the events that happened to him, there is also a secret name that only his mother and father know.
As soon as the tribe catches all the game near the village, and the depleted land ceases to bear fruit, then it is removed from the place and moves to a new place. During the move, the names of Sinta Largs also change, only the “secret” name remains unchanged. To the misfortune of this little tribe, civilized people found on their lands, occupying 21,000 sq. km, the richest reserves of gold, diamonds and tin. Of course, they could not just leave these riches in the ground. However, the Sinta Largi turned out to be a warlike tribe, ready to defend themselves. So, in 2004, they killed 29 miners on their territory and did not suffer any punishment for this, except that they were driven into a reservation of 2.5 million hectares.

3. Korubo

Closer to the origins of the Amazon River lives a very warlike tribe of Korubo. They live mainly by hunting and raiding neighboring tribes. Both men and women participate in these raids, and their weapons are clubs and poisoned darts. There is evidence that the tribe sometimes comes to cannibalism.

4. Amondava

The Amondava tribe living in the jungle has no concept of time, there is no such word even in their language, as well as such concepts as “year”, “month”, etc. Linguists were discouraged by this phenomenon and are trying to understand whether it is not characteristic and other tribes from the Amazon basin. Amondava therefore does not mention ages, and when growing up or changing his status in the tribe, the aborigine simply takes on a new name. Also absent in the language of amondava and turns, which describe the process of the passage of time in spatial terms. For example, we say “before this” (meaning not space, but time), “this incident is left behind”, but in the Amondava language there are no such constructions.

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5. Kayapo

In Brazil, in the eastern part of the Amazon basin, there is a tributary of the Hengu, on the banks of which the Kayapo tribe lives. This very mysterious tribe of about 3,000 people is engaged in the usual activities for the natives: fishing, hunting and gathering. Kayapo great specialists in the field of knowledge healing properties plants, some of them they use to heal fellow tribesmen, and others - for witchcraft. Shamans from the Kayapo tribe treat female infertility with herbs and improve potency in men.
However, most of all they interested researchers with their legends, which tell that in the distant past they were led by heavenly wanderers. The first chief of the Kayapo arrived in a kind of cocoon drawn by a whirlwind. Some attributes from modern rituals are consonant with these legends, for example, objects resembling aircraft and space suits. Tradition says that the leader who descended from heaven lived with the tribe for several years, and then returned to heaven.

The wildest African tribes

6. Nuba

The African Nuba tribe has about 10,000 people. Nuba lands lie on the territory of Sudan. This is a separate community with its own language, which does not come into contact with the outside world, therefore, so far it has been protected from the influence of civilization. This tribe has a very remarkable make-up ritual. The women of the tribe scarify their bodies with intricate patterns, pierce their lower lip and insert quartz crystals into it.
Their marriage ritual associated with annual dances is also interesting. During them, the girls point to the favorites, putting their feet on their shoulders from behind. The happy chosen one does not see the girl's face, but can inhale the smell of her sweat. However, such an “affair” does not at all have to end in a wedding, it is only permission for the groom to sneak secretly from his parents at night into her parents’ house, where she lives. The presence of children is not grounds for recognizing the legality of marriage. A man must live with domestic animals until he builds his own hut. Only then will the couple be able to sleep together legally, but for another year after the housewarming, the spouses cannot eat from the same pot.

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7. Mursi

Women from the Mursi tribe calling card became exotic underlip. It is cut even in childhood for girls, pieces of wood are inserted into the cut over time. bigger size. Finally, on the wedding day, a debi is inserted into the sagging lip - a plate made of baked clay, the diameter of which can reach up to 30 cm.
Mursi easily become an inveterate drunkard and constantly carry batons or Kalashnikovs with them, which they are not averse to using. When battles for supremacy take place within a tribe, they often end in the death of the losing side. The bodies of Mursi women usually look sickly and flabby, with saggy breasts and stooped backs. They are almost devoid of hair on their heads, hiding this shortcoming with incredibly magnificent headdresses, the material for which can be anything that comes to hand: dried fruits, branches, pieces of rough skin, someone's tails, swamp mollusks, dead insects and other carrion. It is difficult for Europeans to be near the Mursi because of their unbearable smell.

8. Hamer (hamar)

On the eastern side of the African Omo Valley, the Hamer or Hamar people live, numbering approximately 35,000 - 50,000 people. Along the banks of the river stand their villages, made up of huts with gabled roofs covered with thatch or grass. The entire household is placed inside the hut: a bed, a hearth, a granary and a goat pen. But only two or three wives with children live in the huts, and the head of the family all the time either grazes cattle or protects the tribe's possessions from the raids of other tribes.
Meetings with wives are very rare, and in these rare moments, the conception of children occurs. But even after returning to the family for a short while, the men, having beaten their wives with long rods, are satisfied with this, and go to sleep in pits resembling graves, and even sprinkle themselves with earth to the point of slight asphyxia. Apparently, they like such a semi-conscious state more than intimacy with their wives, and even they, in truth, are not happy with the “caresses” of their husband and prefer to please each other. As soon as a girl develops external sexual characteristics (at about 12 years old), she is considered ready for marriage. On the wedding day, the newly-made husband, having beaten the bride hard with a reed rod (the more scars remain on her body, the more he loves), puts a silver collar around her neck, which she will wear all her life.

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9. Bushmen

AT South Africa there is a group of tribes collectively called the Bushmen. These are people of short stature, broad cheekbones, with a narrow slit of the eyes and swollen eyelids. Their skin color is difficult to determine, since it is not customary in the Kalahari to waste water on washing, but they are definitely lighter than neighboring tribes. Leading a wandering, half-starved life, the Bushmen believe in afterlife. They have neither a tribal leader nor a shaman, in general there is not even a hint of a social hierarchy. But the elder of the tribe enjoys authority, although he does not have privileges and material advantages.
Bushmen surprise with their cuisine, especially "Bushman rice" - ant larvae. Young Bushwomen are considered the most beautiful in Africa. But as soon as they reach puberty and give birth, their appearance changes dramatically: the buttocks and hips spread sharply, and the stomach remains swollen. All this is not a consequence of dietary nutrition. To distinguish a pregnant Bushwoman from other belly-bellied women, she is coated with ocher or ash. Yes, and the men of the Bushmen at 35 already look like 80-year-old old men - their skin sags everywhere and becomes covered with deep wrinkles.

10. Masai

The Maasai people are slender, tall, they cleverly braid their hair. They differ from other African tribes in their manner of holding on. While most tribes easily come into contact with strangers, the Maasai, who have an innate sense of dignity, keep their distance. But nowadays they have become much more sociable, they even agree to video and photography.
There are about 670,000 Masai, they live in Tanzania and Kenya in East Africa where livestock is bred. According to their beliefs, the gods entrusted the Maasai with the care and custody of all the cows in the world. Maasai childhood, which is the most carefree period in their lives, ends at the age of 14, culminating in an initiation ritual. And it is in both boys and girls. The initiation of girls comes down to the terrible custom for Europeans of circumcision of the clitoris, but without it they cannot marry and do housework. After such a procedure, they do not feel the pleasure of intimacy, so they will be faithful wives.
After initiation, the boys turn into Morans - young warriors. Their hair is coated with ocher, and covered with a bandage, they give out a sharp spear, and a kind of sword is hung on their belt. In this form, the moran should pass with a proudly raised head for several months.