| Bow & Crossbow HuntingHunters and hunted animals(Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo)Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis DevinSoundscape: Greater Spot-nosed Monkey vocalizations (Cercopithecus nictitans). In the background, African rainforest sounds. | | | 3. Baka children sitting around a just-caught Guereza Colobus. | | | |
4. Red-tailed Monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius). | | | |
| | 5. Baka hunter preparing the poison for bow and crossbow arrows. | | | |
| | 6. Hunter with bow and poisoned arrows in front of a leaf hut. Forest camps | | | |
| | 7. Luis Devin with a Baka hunter leaving for a crossbow 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 BACKBaka Pygmy bow and crossbow hunting, with photos and ethnographic notes (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo).Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/baka/crossbow-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 Baka Pygmy people live, is 21:25. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Baka Pygmies section indexCopyright © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved. | | | | | | | |
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