1. Gathering of plant fibers
for the making of woven
mats and baskets.
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| Forest Material Gathering(Baka Pygmies of Cameroon,
Gabon and Congo)Photos, texts and audio recordings
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4. Large leaves of Marantaceae
plants for the making of a shelter.
 African rainforest plants
5. Firewood stacked on the ground
in a Baka forest camp.
Forest trees
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6. Baka woman with a
machete, a knife and a
large pannier for the
gathering of food and
forest material.
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7. Baka Boy taking the wood needed
to make tools from the enormous
aerial root of rainforest tree.
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The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, when you
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of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).
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