1. Gathering
of vegetable fibres


BAKA PYGMIES
DAILY ACTIVITIES


MATERIAL CULTURE





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2. The making of a pannier

Another typical women's activity, such as food gathering and dam fishing, is making panniers, mattings and baskets. They use various vegetable materials for numerous types of weaves according to the use of the different models of baskets which are usually made.


3. The making of a mat
4. The making of a small basket

Other objects of the material culture of Baka Pygmies are musical instruments, hunting weapons, gathering and cooking tools, and bark clothes.


5. The making of a rattle
6. The making of cylindrical drums


7. The making
of a bark cloth






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