1. Bakola hut in a forest camp. | | | |
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| Camps and Huts(BaKola Pygmies / BaGyeli Pygmies of Cameroon)Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis DevinSoundscape: tropical rainforest sounds (Central Africa). | 2. Huts of a village along a river. | | | |
3. River mooring near a forest camp. | | | |
| | 4. Interior of a Bakola mud hut, with fireplace, shelf for firewood and meat smoking, oil lamp and woven plant fiber pannier to transport food and materials from the rainforest. Food preparation and material culture | | | |
| | 5. Mud hut (left) and leaves hut (right). | | | |
6. Reed structure of a Bakola mud house. | | | |
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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 BACKVillages of the Bakola-Bagyeli Pygmies, with photos and ethnographic notes (BaKola Pygmies / BaGyeli Pygmies of Cameroon).Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/bakola-bagyeli/camps.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 06:11. 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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