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- ↑ "Cine Nacional: Corumbiara". TV Brasil. April 20, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
- ↑ Survival International (2009-12-03). "Video footage of The Last of his Tribe" . Retrieved 26 April 2022– via YouTube.
A clip from Vincent Carrelli's film Corumbiara. It is the only known footage of the 'Man of the Hole', the last survivor of an uncontacted Amazon tribe.
- ↑ Baker, Vicky (20 July 2018). "Last survivor: The story of the 'world's loneliest man'". BBC News . Retrieved 26 April 2022.
- ↑ Reel, Monte (2010). The last of the tribe : the epic quest to save a lone man in the Amazon (1 ed.). New York: Scribner. ISBN 9781416594758.
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