1. Elderly Baka woman performing a ritual dance. Baka dances

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Baka Women

Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin

Soundscape: voices in a Baka camp. In the background, insects
and birds of the surrounding rainforest (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon).

2. Old woman with a pannier, coming back from food and material gathering in the rainforest. Food gathering Material gathering

3. Hair styling. Portraits of Bakola women

4. Baka woman with facial scarifications and a scarf.

5. Woman in the doorway of a bark hut, in a rain forest camp. Baka forest camps

6. - 9. Women with painted faces, performing polyphonic songs during a ritual ceremony. Baka Pygmy music and musical instruments

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	HOME SECTION INDEX BACK Baka women (rainforest of Central Africa), with soundscape and descriptive notes (Baka Pygmies of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo). Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/baka/women.php Photos, 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 15:05. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Baka Pygmies section index Copyright © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved.