1. Bakola boy coming from a hunting trip with an African brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus). African rainforest rodents | | | |
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| Hunting ActivitiesHunters and hunted animals(BaKola Pygmies / BaGyeli Pygmies of Cameroon)Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis DevinSoundscape: Greater Spot-nosed Monkey vocalizations (Cercopithecus nictitans). In the background, African rainforest sounds. | 2. Bakola net hunter with a spear, seated on a hunting net, waiting for the beginning of an antelope hunt. | | | |
| | | | 4. A young Bakola hunter with a Southern Tree Hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus). | | | |
| | | | 6. Blue Duiker (Cephalophus monticola). | | | |
7. African brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus). | | | |
| | 8. Basenji hunting dog, helping Bakola/Bagyeli Pygmies with the hunt. | | | |
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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 BACKHunting activities 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/hunting.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 04:29. 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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