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Mbuti boys wear grass skirts that swish when they dance during their circumcision ceremony. The leaf plates keep them silent from speaking.

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RANDY OLSON
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5100x3372 / 9.8MB
Keywords
africa, african tribal peoples, circumcision, customs, democratic republic of the congo, ethnic and tribal peoples, forests and forestry, habitats and ecosystems, ituri forest, mbuti pygmy tribespeople, medical examination and treatment, peoples, puberty rites, pygmy tribespeople, rain forests, religion, religious rites, surgery, tribal customs, zaire
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Ituri Forest Pygmy_National Geographic Magazine 9/2005
Mbuti boys wear grass skirts that swish when they dance during their circumcision ceremony. The leaf plates keep them silent from speaking.