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1. Arched harp player
in front of a hut.
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African Pygmies   > Baka Pygmies   > Music and Rituals

Music and Musical Instruments

(Baka Pygmies of Cameroon,
Gabon and Congo)
Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin
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Soundscape: Baka arched harp. In the background, sounds
and voices of a rainforest camp (Pigmei Baka del Camerun).
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2. Making of a woven
plant fiber rattle.
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weaving
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3. Player of a
harp-zither with
central bridge.
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4. Drummer accompanying
a dance with an open
single-skin cylindrical drum.
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5. Single-skin drum player.
6. Water drums in a river.
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7. Study of the
Baka arched harp.
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8. A group of women performing propitiatory musical
rites for the hunt, during the departure of the hunters.
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