Bakoya Pygmy drum
1. Open single-skin
cylindrical drum
with pierced base.

Music and Dances

Drummers, singers and dancers

(Bakoya Pygmies of Gabon)
Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin
Soundscape: polyphonic song recorded in a Bakoya village
in the rainforest of Gabon (Bakoya Pygmies of Gabon).
Bakoya pygmy dance
2. Itinerant female vocal group.
Go to the page: Bakoya women portraits
Bakoya Pygmies drummers
3. Young Bakoya musicians.
Bakoya Pygmy dancer
4. Bakoya woman improvising
a dance; in the background,
single-skin cylindrical drum.
Plastic idiophone drum of the Bakoya Pygmies
5. Young player of
idiophone drum made
with a plastic bucket
upside down on the ground.
Go to the page: New materials and
cultural contaminations
Pygmy singer (Bakoya / Bakola)
6. Painted woman singing
a song for a Bakota ritual.
Go to the page: Bakota circumcision rite
Children (Bakoya / Bakola Pygmies)
7. Bakoya children performing a participation dance.
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Bakoya Pygmy music and dances, with photos and ethnographic notes
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