Zo’é – Survival International.

A peaceful way of life

The Zo’é are a small, isolated tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforests of north Brazil. They only came into sustained contact with outsiders in 1987 when missionaries of the New Tribes Mission built a base on their land.
Their land has been officially recognized by the government, which controls access to it to minimise the transmission of potentially fatal diseases such as flu and measles.

The Zo’é live in large rectangular thatched houses which are open on all sides. Here several families live together, sleeping in hammocks slung from the rafters and cooking over open fires along the sides.

Zo’é women usually carry their babies in slings which they weave from palm fibres or cotton grown in their gardens. © Fiona Watson/Survival

The Zo’é prize Brazil nuts, and often site their communities in groves of Brazil…