1. Water drums in a rainforest lake. | | | |
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| Water Drums(Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo)Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis DevinSoundscape: flowing river in the African rainforest. | 2. Baka girls performing water drums in a river. 3. Learnig water drums.
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| | 4. Baka children learnig water drums in a rainforest river. Baka children | | | |
| | | | 6. Luis Devin with Baka women and children in the water of a river, to study the playing techniques and poly rhythmic patterns of water drums. Fieldwork audio-photo gallery | | | |
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Music anthropologist and writer, he has carried out field research in central Africa, where he lived with the Baka Pygmies and other forest peoples, whose music, rituals and survival strategies he has been studying for more than a decade. www.luisdevin.comwww.facebook.com/LuisDevin | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | HOME SECTION INDEX BACKBaka Pygmy water drums, with photos and ethnographic notes (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo).Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/baka/water-drums.phpPhotos, videos and sounds are available for licensing, both for multimedia use and paper publications. For the terms and conditions, contact the author from the Contact page. The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka Pygmy people live, is 05:26. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Baka Pygmies section indexCopyright © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved. | | | | | | | |
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