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Pygmy Boys in a nKumbi Manhood Ritual wear a leaf mouthpiece to keep them silent. Forest Pygmies near Epulu, Democratic Republic of Congo are indigenous, semi-nomadic, hunter-gatherers in the rainforest of the Congo Basin. The BaMbuti Pygmies perform a nKumbi or initiation that lasts five months where the boys live at a camp in the forest and daily learn survival skills.

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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
Pygmy Boys in a nKumbi Manhood Ritual wear a leaf mouthpiece to keep them silent. Forest Pygmies near Epulu, Democratic Republic of Congo are indigenous, semi-nomadic, hunter-gatherers in the rainforest of the Congo Basin. The BaMbuti Pygmies perform a  nKumbi or initiation that lasts five months where the boys live at a camp in the forest and daily learn survival skills.