Bakola-Bagyeli Pygmy children playing a drum
1. Open single-skin
cylindrical drum, played
by Bakola children.

Music and Dances

(musical instruments, musicians and dancers)

(Bakola Pygmies / Bagyeli Pygmies of Cameroon)
Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin
Soundscape: Bakola dance with choral song, single skin drum and
reed trunk used as a percussion tube (Bakola Pygmies of Cameroon).
Manufacturing of a single-skin cylindrical drum of the Bakola Pygmies
2. Fixing of an antelope skin,
during the final stage of the
making of a Bakola Pygmy
membranophone, in a semi-
sedentary camp in the
Cameroonian rainforest.
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Pygmy percussionist of a struck idiophone
3. Reed trunk used as
individual percussion
tube (idiophone struck
directly), played during
a night ritual dance.
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gathering
A Bakola-Bagyeli Pygmy child playing a struck idiophone
4. Bakola child learning
to play an individual
percussion tube,
by imitating the adults.
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women and children
Audio recording of a Bakola-Bagyeli Pygmy lamellophone
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5. Audio recordings
of a pygmy lamellophone
(plucked idiophone in
board with laced-on
lamellae with resonator)
played by a Bakola boy.
Young Pygmy girls dancing a participation dance
6. Night participation dance.
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