Photo gallery with soundscapes and quotes from the book The Forest Has You

BAKA PYGMIES - LEAF HUT (CAMEROON)

African Rainforest & Pygmy Peoples


Leaf hut, from Luis Devin's anthropological research in Central Africa (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon)
Baka children outside a leaf hut, in a rainforest camp (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon).

"A hut is a green cocoon, a shell of leaves that is round and compact. Warm and welcoming, protective: as you enter you immediately feel the desire to lie down on the floor in foetal position. You are inside, but it's as if you are not there at all: the hut makes you invisible. In the sense that it is all formed from the forest, of leaves and branches, living things. Animals passing by mistake it for a bush..."

Luis Devin, The Forest Has You. Story of an Initiation
Italian edition: La foresta ti ha. Storia di un'iniziazione
(Castelvecchi - LIT Edizioni)


Soundscape: Baka children speaking and, in the background,
elderly woman singing a jodel lullaby (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon).




Photo gallery about African Pygmies and the rainforest, with soundscapes from pygmy camps and the forest.

      Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/rainforest-pygmies/photo-gallery.php?photo=2       Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin.
The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka and the other Pygmy peoples live, is 05:24.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).