Bailing fishing is women’s work. Everyone bails the water with the same rhythm. (Photo: Inai)
Movie of bailing out water:
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The fishermen make their own fishing gear and then fish with them. (Photo: Inai)
In the fishing camp, they go fishing with their family members. (Photo: Inai)
The livelihood of the Fulbe is to herd cattle and take care of them. (Photo: Inai)
These are cassava gathered in the fields of tropical rain forests. (Photo: Komatsu)
After putting the gathered cassava in the stored water for several days to get rid of the poison, the cassavas are broken down and dried in the sun. (Photo: Komatsu)
A Baka man, who is eradicating weeds. (Photo: Kitanishi)
Attempting to put the cassava, which is their staple food, into a bag to squeeze the water out. (Photo: Kitanishi)
A Baka men, who helped to research on cultivation. (Photo: Kitanishi)
The owner of a cacao cultivation which has beautifully eradicated its weeds and the Baka man who owns it. (Photo: Kitanishi)
In the mid-afternoon when no one was around, cacao beans were placed in the sun in front of a house of the Baka Pygmies, mongul. The amount of cacaos is not much but these were gathered in a plantation that the Baka Pygmies own. (Photo: Oishi)
The cotton gathered from a cultivation in the savannah. (Photo: Yasuda)
Many of the villagers in Taboun are Christians. Everyone dances during Christmas. (Photo: Yasuda)
When it becomes the long dry season, the Baka Pygmies move to camps in the forests and concentrate on hunter-gathering and fishery. (Photo: Hattori)
This Baka Pygmy woman is cracking the fruit of “kombele” which was gathered in the forests and picking up the seeds from it. After being smoked, the seeds are ground up and used for seasoning supplementary foods. (Photo: Hattori)
This is “Bama,” a Baka Pygmy, whom the late Dr. Junichiro Itani called a “stunning beauty.” She is a charming woman who is also a bit cynical but has a frank personality. (Photo: Hayahshi)
Ndongo village where the field station is located is found near the borders between the Cameroon Republic and Congo Republic. A former head of the village, Mr. Comanda (the Bakwele) has been keeping up his routine, putting the national flag up every morning, still after his retirement. Even in this village which is located in the outskirts of the Eastern Province and often regarded as a “remote and backward” area, the concept of a nation is widespread. (Photo: Oishi)