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Mbuti Pygmy boys learn to fish and other survival skills at their hunting camp in the Ituri Forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Boys go through the circumcision ceremony called nKumbi. They are whipped every morning to make them tough, and then they sent off into the forest to hunt or fish. The boys pull a small hook out of their skirts and get a vine and a stick—they know where to dig for worms. They catch five or six 2inch long fish and eat them raw for lunch.
- Copyright
- RANDY OLSON
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- 10000x6667 / 190.8MB
- Keywords
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africa, african tribal peoples, circumcision, creeks and streams, customs, democratic republic of the congo, ethnic and tribal peoples, fishing and fishermen, 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
- Contained in galleries
- Ituri Forest Pygmy_National Geographic Magazine 9/2005