1. Pounding manioc with pestle and mortar. Cultivated products

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Food Preparation

Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin

Soundscape: pangolin scales crackling on the fire. In the background,
Baka camp and rainforest sounds (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon).

2. Manioc drying. 3. Palm oil preparation.

4. Baka girl mincing vegetables on a wooden chopping board. Vegetable gathering in the rainforest Baka women

5. Young Baka boy cooking meat in an iron pot. Animals hunted with bows and crossbows

6. Elderly woman with an antelope head (Yellow-backed Duiker, Cephalophus silvicultor). Animals hunted with traps The African rainforest

7. Baka man putting a Pangolin on fire to facilitate the detachment of scales.

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