Praying Mantis, Bunia, Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa

Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) Ituri Forest. Pygmee men with their hunting nets.

Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) Ituri Forest. Pygmee and African music instrument, Kalimba thumb piano.

Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) Ituri Forest. Pygmee girl decorating her breasts.

Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) Ituri Forest. Pygmee woman with painted face.

Three Pygmy arrows lay on a palm leaf in Ngodi Ngodi. The pointed arrows were constructed out of metal and wood.

Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) Ituri Forest. Pygmee girl decorates her breats.

Pygmee smokes marijuana from a clay bowl through a stem of a palm. They trade meat from their hunt for the herb grown by agrarian tribes.

Zaire Ituri Forest. Robert Bailey, anthropologist with his pygmee friends and subject, Ngodi Ngodi.

Children's faces painted with white at a Menstrual Ceremony in Pemba.

Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) Ituri Forest. A Sunday procession before a mass at a Catholic mission.

Pygmee mentruation dance, Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) Ituri Forest.

A Pygmy archer holds bows and arrows in Ngodi Ngodi.

Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) Ituri Forest.

CONGO Ituri Forest Mbuti pygmy family. Zaire Congo Nomadic forest dwelling Twa people