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A lone indigenous man living in the Brazilian Amazon forest who had avoided contact with the outside world for decades has died. The man who was known as the “Man of the Hole” was the last member of his tribe, the rest of whom were massacred from the 1970s onwards, leaving him as the only inhabitant of Tanaru Indigenous Territory in Rondonia state, in the western Brazilian Amazon, reports Survival International. According to IflScience, National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) officials who had been monitoring him from a distance found his body in a hammock in his hut. They reported he had placed brightly colored feathers around his body, suggesting he had prepared for death. It is thought that he died from