1. Rectangular mud hut with painted walls, based on non-pygmy architectural models (Tikar of Cameroon), as most of the Bedzan houses. Semi-sedentary villages of the Baka Pygmies Rainforest camps of the Baka Pygmies

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Villages and Huts

Bedzan and Tikar architectural models

(Bedzan Pygmies of Cameroon)

Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin

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Soundscape: tropical rainforest sounds (Central Africa).

2. Bedzan village on the edge of the rainforest.

3. Mud hut with a shelter and window.

4. Wooden structure of a Bedzan mud hut with a rectangular plan. Villages and huts of the Bakoya Pygmies

5. Another mud hut in a camp along a track at the edge of the Cameroonian rainforest. Camps and huts of the Bakola-Bagyeli Pygmies

6. Huts in a Bedzan village.

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