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Mbuti boys wear grass skirts and leaf mouthpieces to stay silent during their circumcision ceremony. Pgymies are of the Congo's few remaining traditional tribes in the rainforests of the world. They are threatened by logging companies and growing modern culture.
- Copyright
- RANDY OLSON
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- 10000x6667 / 190.8MB
- Keywords
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africa, african tribal peoples, body paint, circumcision, customs, decoration and ornament, democratic republic of the congo, ethnic and tribal peoples, forests and forestry, habitats and ecosystems, ituri forest, mbuti pygmy tribespeople, medical examination and treatment, panned views, peoples, puberty rites, pygmy tribespeople, rain forests, religion, religious rites, special effects, surgery, tribal customs, zaire
- Contained in galleries
- Ituri Forest Pygmy_National Geographic Magazine 9/2005
