Randy Olson, Melissa Farlow Photography

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Pygmies girls daub each other with clay to beautify their bodies. They also do this in solidarity with the boys’ for their initiation into manhood ceremony called nKumbi

Copyright

RANDY OLSON

Image Size

10000x6667 / 190.8MB

Keywords

africa, african tribal peoples, body paint, clay, decoration and ornament, democratic republic of the congo, ethnic and tribal peoples, forests and forestry, habitats and ecosystems, ituri forest, mbuti pygmy tribespeople, peoples, pygmy tribespeople, rain forests, soil, zaire

Contained in galleries

Ituri Forest Pygmy_National Geographic Magazine 9/2005