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As a member of the Mbuti people, [7] Ota Benga lived in equatorial forests near the Kasai River in what was then the Congo Free State.His people were attacked by the Force Publique, established by King Leopold II of Belgium as a militia to oppress the local people and communities, most of whom were used as forced laborers in the extraction and exploitation of Congo's massive supply of rubber. [8]
The African Pygmies (or Congo Pygmies, variously also Central African foragers, "African rainforest hunter-gatherers" (RHG) or "Forest People of Central Africa") [a] are a group of ethnicities native to Central Africa, mostly the Congo Basin, traditionally subsisting on a forager and hunter-gatherer lifestyle. They are divided into three ...
West African hunter-gatherers, [1] West African foragers, [2] or West African pygmies [3] dwelled in western Central Africa earlier than 32,000 BP [4] and dwelled in West Africa between 16,000 BP and 12,000 BP [5] until as late as 1000 BP [1] or some period of time after 1500 CE. [6]
The Pygmies are among central Africa's oldest indigenous peoples, but wars and competing cultures are taking a toll on their very existence. For Congo's Pygmies, expulsion and forest clearance end ...
A group of Igorot displayed during the St. Louis World's Fair [1] [2] Natives of Tierra del Fuego, brought to the Paris World's Fair by the Maître in 1889. Human zoos, also known as ethnological expositions, were a colonial practice of publicly displaying people, usually in a so-called "natural" or "primitive" state. [3]
The Mbuti population live in the Ituri, a tropical rainforest covering about 63,000 km 2 (24,000 square miles) of the north/northeast portion of the DRC. In this area, there is a high amount of rainfall annually, ranging from 1,300 to 1,800 mm (50 to 70 inches). The dry season is in January, and then May through August. [4]
The Efé can be said to live in cooperation with the Lese, who live in villages of between fifteen and a hundred people and grow their food. [ 6 ] : 18 The Efé make their camps on the outskirts of the forest near a Lese village for about seven months of the year (save for the best hunting season, January through March, and honey season), and ...
A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village. The term pygmy, as used to refer to diminutive people, comes via Latin pygmaeus from Greek πυγμαῖος pygmaîos, derived from πυγμή pygmḗ, meaning "short cubit", or a measure of length corresponding to the distance from the elbow to the first knuckle of the middle finger, meant to express pygmies' diminutive stature.