Actually, it was the corpse of a man who was the last member of his indigenous tribe in Brazil, marking the first recorded disappearance of an uncontacted tribe in the South American nation’s history. Indigenous experts in Brazil believed the man placed the macaw feathers on himself in the knowledge that he was on the verge of dying.

He is deemed to have died of natural causes and while the deceased’s name remains a mystery, he is known to the world as “the Man of the Hole” because of the dozens of holes he dug over the years in his territory.  Officials from Brazil’s indigenous protection agency Funai - who have been monitoring his survival since the 1990s - guessed that he was just about 60 years old.

It is believed that the majority of his tribe had been killed as early as the 1970s by ranchers.

In 1995, six remaining members of his tribe were victims of an attack by illegal miners, leaving him as the tribe’s sole survivor for the last 26 years. Just imagine the sense of alienation and sorrow he must have felt.

Since the incident, Funai had been monitoring the locality for the sake of his safety but his remains were discovered last month, on Aug 23 - estimated to be roughly 40 to 50 days after his demise - during a patrol in the Tanaru Indigenous Territory in Rondônia, a Brazilian state bordering Bolivia.

MS : The Orang Asli and their tribulations are really not the concern of Malay politicians. For two reasons. One, acknowledging them will undercut the constantly repeated Ketuanan Melayu lie. 

And two, where they are concerned, the Palestinians have a more seductive branding with the patently false but alluring narrative of Islam subjugated by Zionism. It appeals to the basest of tribal instincts and translates into votes from their semi-literate base In any case, charity for them does not begin at home. Never has, never will.

Krabian : Don't ask ourselves. Ask Ismail Sabri and his lopsided Keluarga Malaysia. Those are his policies that divide the nation and leave the Orang Asli out.

Kawak : Are the orang asli less bumiputra than those migrants from Indonesia, India or Bangladesh? They are truly the indigenous people of Malaya. Unfortunately, this UMNO government for years are less zealous in improving wellbeing than converting their religion or beliefs. The worse is the destruction of their natural habitat and farming land for greed of timber revenue.