Pygmy player of one-tone flute
1. One-tone flute player.
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Baka Men

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(Baka Pygmies of Cameroon,
Gabon and Congo)
Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin
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Soundscape: Baka people identifying a Tricuspix Pangolin and
a Long Queue Pangolin (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon).
Pygmy boy in a rain forest village in the night
2. Baka boy.
Pygmy man sitting on a fallen tree in the rainforest of Cameroon
3. Man sitting on
a fallen tree in a
rainforest clearing.
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Pygmy elderly man
4. Baka elderly man.
Pygmy boy in a rain forest camp
5. Baka boy.
Pygmy men (portraits)
6. - 9. Portraits of Baka men.
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The author:
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.

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Baka men (rainforest of Central Africa), with soundscape and descriptive notes (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo).

Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin.
Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/baka/men.php

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The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka Pygmy people live, is 04:57. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).

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