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  • Pygmies travel the dusty trans-African highway in Epulu carrying supplies and family members too small to walk.
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  • A Mbuti Pygmy child crying as he receives an innoculation as part of medical care for the indigenous peoples.
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  • Pygmies bend branches to create shelter at hunting camps. The semi-nomadic tribal boys are going through the circumcision ceremony called nKumbi are accompanied the adults to the camp.  They have their own structure and are sent off into the forest to hunt or fish.
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  • Traders push goods hundreds of miles by bicycle along the trans-African highway which runs east/west in DR Congo. War lords along the way patrol through the rebel controlled gold mining region.
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  • A group of Congolese women and children in a waiting room for medical care to the Pygmy tribes people.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy tribespeople with hunting net and baby in sling in forest as the semi-nomadic people make their way to a hunting camp in the Ituri Forest.
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  • Traders push goods hundreds of miles by bicycle along the muddy Trans-African Highway. Rain can't stop the human flood of those who push through to resupply newly minted gold mines in the Ituri. It is the main east/west highway in DR Congo.
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  • Mbuti Pygmies at a forest hunting camp where people gather to flush out duikers into their nets.
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  • Refugee Pygmies wash near their leaf huts. They are under threat from logging companies and a rapidly changing world with little concern for indigenous people and their traditions.
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  • Gold mining near the town of Quarantesept in northeastern Congo. Hundreds of people from Congo and Uganda come to work at the mines.<br />
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Villagers in the war-weary Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo scrape for gold in a shaft dug decades ago by a Belgian company. Until recently, armed groups controlled Ituri’s rich mines, using gold to buy weapons.
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  • Gold mining in northeastern Congo. Quarantesept and Cinqante are gold mining towns near Ituri forest reserve in DR Congo. Hundreds of people from Congo and Uganda come to work at the mines.
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  • The South Sudan war zone is cut off from outside aid. Without cows or supplies, the Dinka people around Biem are desperate for food. They have eaten leaves from the bottom of the trees and now climb up to gather from the tops to boil them in rancid swamp water.
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  • A Pygmy woman does chores for a wealthy family in Beni. <br />
She is the daughter of Kenge-known because of a book, "The Forest People." Kenge is possibly the most famous pygmy.  His daughter was traded off to a wealthy Bantu family
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  • Villagers in the war-weary Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo scrape for gold in a shaft dug decades ago by a Belgian company. Armed groups controlled Ituri’s rich mines, using gold to buy weapons. Hundreds of people from Congo and Uganda come to work at the mines.
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  • The South Sudan war zone is cut off from outside aid. Without cows or supplies, the Dinka people around Biem are desperate for food. They have eaten leaves from the bottom of the trees and now climb up to gather from the tops to boil them in rancid swamp water.
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  • A Pygmy girl does chores for a wealthy Bantu family in Beni. <br />
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This is the daughter of Kenge-known because of a book, "The Forest People." Kenge is possibly the most famous pygmy.  His daughter was traded off to a wealthy Bantu family when the father had a good job with GIC and his wife needed help with the kids.  During the war, the family moved to Beni, because it was a little more secure than Epulu. They brought their pygmy with them.  She does various chores around the house-laundry, sweeping, mopping, washing children.
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  • Kara women dance as their sons prepare for a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara boys and girls dance at a celebration.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Nyangatom women dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Kara women dance as their sons prepare for initiation into manhood.
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  • Banna males prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual and participants are photographed by tourists.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Banna males prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Banna males prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Banna male becomes a man during a cattle jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
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  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
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  • A Kara son prepares for bull jumping initiation into manhood.
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  • Suri covers himself with clay body paint for ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Preparations for a wedding in Tulgit.
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  • Funeral and burial for a Suri woman.
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  • Suri cover themselves with clay body paint for ceremonial pole fights.
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  • A Hamar male becomes a man during a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A family has a fourth day ceremony for a newborn child.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • A photographer poses with a Nyangatom woman.
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  • A Banna man whips a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • A Mursi woman and child in village of Galap.
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  • A photographer takes images of the Kara tribe during bull jumping.
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  • Nyangatom women collect water.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Crushed minerals are dusted over a Hamar girl   s hair.
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  • Ornamental cuts on a Suri girl will heal in a raised pattern of scars.
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  • The Kara tribe prepares for a coming of age bull jumping ceremony.
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  • The Kara tribe prepares for a coming of age bull jumping ceremony.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • A Kara man stirs with root that makes the water drop all of its silt.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • A Kwegu woman holds a baboon as a fertility custom.
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  • A Banna man prepares to whip a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights as women wait at their huts.
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  • Kara men prepare for a coming of age ceremony
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  • A Kara man painted and dressed for an evening dance carries a goat.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • A Banna man prepares to whip a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • Men from Suri clans compete in bloody ceremonial pole fights.
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  • Children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • A Nyangatom man cooking a goat at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Suri women with lip plates.
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  • Suri women with lip plates.
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  • A woman with a nail piercing the area under her lower lip.
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  • Suri women with lip plates.
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  • A Suri woman with a lip plate.
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  • Building a new hut in Tulgit for the village representative.
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  • Boys in the Suri village of Tulgit.
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  • A young Kara boy surveys the crowd at a wedding party.
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  • Young Kara boys wait for a wedding party to start.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • A Mursi woman wearing ear discs in the village of Galap.
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  • A Kara woman nurses her baby behind a shelter in a field.
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  • A Kara woman prepares food near Lake Diba.
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  • Suri women with lip plates.
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  • A Suri woman with a lip plate carries her baby.
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