1. Bakola boy coming from a hunting trip with an African brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus). African rainforest rodents

African Pygmies > Other Pygmy Peoples > BaKola-BaGyeli

Hunting Activities

Hunters and hunted animals

(BaKola Pygmies / BaGyeli Pygmies of Cameroon)

Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin

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Soundscape: Greater Spot-nosed Monkey vocalizations
(Cercopithecus nictitans). In the background, African rainforest sounds.

2. Bakola net hunter with a spear, seated on a hunting net, waiting for the beginning of an antelope hunt.

3. Old Bakola healer with a spear, inside a wooden hut. Camps and huts

4. A young Bakola hunter with a Southern Tree Hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus).

5. Rainforest giant rat (Cricetomys emini) laid down on a leaf beside a fireplace. Food preparation and other daily activities

6. Blue Duiker (Cephalophus monticola).

7. African brush-tailed porcupine (Atherurus africanus).

8. Basenji hunting dog, helping Bakola/Bagyeli Pygmies with the hunt.

9. Luis Devin with Bakola net hunters, with a spear and hunting nets. Fieldwork audio-photo gallery

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	HOME SECTION INDEX BACK Hunting activities of the Bakola-Bagyeli Pygmies, with photos and ethnographic notes (BaKola Pygmies / BaGyeli Pygmies of Cameroon). Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/bakola-bagyeli/hunting.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 BaKola-BaGyeli Pygmy people live, is 22:29. 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 © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved.