Posted on 06/23/2008 10:13:51 AM PDT by Daffynition
HE man behind photos of warriors from an "undiscovered" Amazon tribe that were beamed around the world has admitted it was a publicity stunt aimed at raising awareness of logging.
Indigenous tribes expert, José Carlos Meirelles, said the tribe had been known of since 1910, and had been photographed to prove that they still existed in an area endangered by logging, The Guardian reported.
Mr Meirelles, who was working for Funai, the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency dedicated to finding remote tribes and protecting them, said he spent three years gatheiring "evidence" about the tribe, and then planned the publicity to protect them from losing their habitat.
Mr Meirelles, 61, said the "chance encounter" that produced the famous photographs was no accident.
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I knew it! They had that Mcdonald bulge around the middle.
If you zoom in on the photo far enough you can see an I-pod clipped to the loin cloth. ;D
Fake but ACCURATE!
Good one!
Should have know by his name: José Carlos Daniel Rather Meirelles
I knew it. The two hunters were wearing Nike sneakers..
Oh dear! You’ve uncovered my specialty ... posting fake but accurate news items. ;-D
I heard that Richard Dreyfus was among them.
A hoax
When I saw the photo credited to “Mary Mapes” I knew it was a ruse.
Really? I heard Sean Penn flew his row boat from New Orleans and was half way up the Amazon. Wonder if he’s got cell phone coverage so someone can tell him.
No, but Jimmy Hoffa and some fat guy named Presley are.
Krippendorf bump
I guess he figured that adding a polar bear on a melting ice flow in a tropical jungle would have been over the top.
hmmm sounds like Tasaday revisited
Just a publicity stunt! I bet their faces are red now!!
Why is this hilarious?
And I fell for it. Wow.
And I should believe Global Warming is manmade, why?
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