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Passengers crowd the decks and roofs of three lead barges pushed up the Congo River by the boat Col. Ebeya.
Scene of downtown Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, showing the main street, the 20th Juin, cutting through the city at sunset.
Scene of downtown Kinshasa at dusk showing the main street, the 20th Juin, cutting through the city.
Some of the hundreds of dugout canoes or pirogues that are paddled out to tie onto the boat and barges that steam up the congo River. People who live along the river bring bush meat, fish, and produce to trade with the merchants who travel on the boat.
Men in a canoe paddle to join with others tied up the the side of barges pushed up the Congo River by the Col. Ebeya. The canoes bring fish, meat, insects, and produce to the boat, which the fishermen trade for manufactured goods.
Villagers and pirogues await the arrival of the Col. Ebeya as it pushes its very crowded barges up the Congo River from Kinshasa to Kisingani. . The boat is a moving market for people who live along the river.
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.
Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) Ituri Forest. A Sunday procession before a mass at a Catholic mission.
Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) Ituri Forest. Pygmee and African music instrument, Kalimba thumb piano.
View of one of the crowded barges and the dugout canoes or pirogues which the fishermen and hunters who live along the Congo River use to bring bush meat to the boat to trade for salt, sugar and other goods.
Three Pygmy arrows lay on a palm leaf in Ngodi Ngodi. The pointed arrows were constructed out of metal and wood.