Amazon People Emerges From Brazilian Rainforest

A group of indigenous Amazon people has been filmed emerging from the Brazilian rainforest and making contact with the outside world.
Pictures and video released by Brazil's indigenous authority show the small group carrying bows and arrows walking along the banks of the Envira River, near the Peruvian border.

Experts said the indigenous people probably crossed the border from Peru because of increasing pressure from illegal logging and drug trafficking in their home area.

The people from the Amazon are from the Panoan linguistic group, and made contact with members of the Ashaninka native people.

They have been identified as members of a group known as the Rio Xinane.

In one scene, an ethnic Ashaninka gives bananas to two of the tribe who come forward towards him. 

They take the fruit, communicate a little and then return to their bank.

The native people initially made contact with the Ashaninka on June 26 and were subsequently filmed four days later by a team from Brazil's Indian Foundation, Funai.

Two Panoan indigenous interpreters were brought in to communicate with them on the visit.

"They were whistling and making animal sounds," said one interpreter.

"They speak our language. I was so happy we could talk to each other."