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

African Pygmies > Other Pygmy Peoples > BaKoya

Music and Dances

Drummers, singers and dancers

(BaKoya Pygmies of Gabon)

Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin

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Soundscape: polyphonic song recorded in a Bakoya village
in the rainforest of Gabon (Bakoya Pygmies of Gabon).

2. Itinerant female vocal group. Bakoya women portraits

3. Young Bakoya musicians.

4. Bakoya woman improvising a dance; in the background, single-skin cylindrical drum.

5. Young player of idiophone drum made with a plastic bucket upside down on the ground. New materials and cultural contaminations

6. Painted woman singing a song for a Bakota ritual. Bakota circumcision rite

7. Bakoya children performing a participation dance.

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	HOME SECTION INDEX BACK Bakoya Pygmy music and dances, with photos and ethnographic notes (BaKoya Pygmies of Gabon). Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/bakoya/music-dance.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 BaKoya Pygmy people live, is 14:45. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Other Pygmy Peoples section index Copyright © 1998-2025 Luis Devin. All rights reserved.