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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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  • An informal portrait of a sweating Congolese man working in the steamy Ituri forest.
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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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  • A Mbuti Pygmy child crying as he receives an innoculation as part of medical care for the indigenous peoples.
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  • A group of Mbuti Pygmy women and children.
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  • An Mbuti Pygmy woman and man wave grass whips to beat each other which is part of the traditional ceremonies surrounding the nKumbi manhood ritual.
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  • A Mbuti Pygmy woman smokes a pipe as another nurses a baby.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy children play with a bow and arrow. The indigenous tribe is of hunting and gathering origin in the Ituri forest.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys painted with clay symbols on their bodies and faces participate in manhood initiation rites.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy tribesmen in the rain forest with freshly killed duikers which are an important part of their diet.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy woman and child in the frame of a leaf-covered hut. The indigenous semi-nomadic tribe builds structures for nighttime as they set up hunting camps.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy tribesmen sitting on rolled up hunting nets that are used to trap small game in the forest..
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  • Mbuti Pygmy woman and child in a leaf-covered hut shelter the semi-nomadic indigenous tribe builds.
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  • A Mbuti Pygmy woman receives an inoculation for medical treatment in DR Congo.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy hunter with spear and rolled up net for snaring game as he walks through the forest.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy hunter carries a spear and rolled up net for snaring game as the indigenous tribe moves through the Ituri Forest.
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  • A Mbuti Pygmy spear projecting into a rain forest scene. Spears are used for hunting in a  dense bush and forest habitat.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy hunter with spear and rolled up net for snaring game. He is tying leaves onto branches that the semi-nomadic tribe assembles to make shelter.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy women dressed in clothing of traditional patterns and work together in the Ituri Forest.
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  • Men load a wooden plank onto a bicycle. Logging companies are one of the greatest threats to indigenous tribe of Pygmies that survive in the forest as hunters and gatherers.
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  • Men carrying lumber out of the Ituri Forest in Congo. Logging companies hire Pygmies to cut down trees that the indigenous tribe depends on for survival.
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  • A man carries a plank out of the Ituri Forest in Congo where the Pygmies are hired by logging companies to cut down their forest.
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  • Vendors carry goods and wares on bicycles through muddy Congo roads.
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  • Security Guards are armed to watch over men digging for gold in a pit. Quarantesept and Cinqante are gold mining towns just outside the Ituri forest reserve in DR Congo
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys painted with clay decorations participate in manhood initiation rites.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boy painted with clay symbols wears a grass skirt during manhood initiation rites.
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  • A Mbuti Pygmy boy grimaces after receiving cuts to scar his body during the nKumbi manhood initiation rites.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys are cut to make scars during nKumbi manhood initiation rites.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys apply body paint during manhood initiation rites. Gray color is commonly used to mean security, authority, maturity and stability.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys paint each others bodies with clay while participating in manhood initiation rites.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy girls in body paint during boys' manhood initiation rites.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy girls apply clay paint to decorate their bodies and faces for the boys' manhood initiation in the Ituri Forest.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy boys view the whip from behind grass screen during manhood initiation rites.
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