| PortraitsBakola men, women and children(BaKola Pygmies / BaGyeli Pygmies of Cameroon)Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis DevinSoundscape: camp in the Cameroonian rainforest at sunset; in the background, cylindrical single-skin drum and rainforest sounds (Bakola Pygmies of Cameroon). | | | | | | | 5. Bakola woman with an elaborate headdress. | | | |
| | 6. Bakola man in front of a canopy of leaves. | | | |
| | 7. Bakola child with wet face, while he is washed in a plastic basin. | | | |
| | 8. Bakola children in a rainforest camp. | | | |
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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 BACKPhoto potraits (Bakola-Bagyeli Pygmy people), with soundscape and descriptive notes (BaKola Pygmies / BaGyeli Pygmies of Cameroon).Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/bakola-bagyeli/portraits.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 BaKola-BaGyeli Pygmy people live, is 05:39. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Other Pygmy Peoples section indexCopyright © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved. | | | | | | | |
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