African Pygmies
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The African Pygmies 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 roughl
Baka dancers in the East Province of Cameroon (2006)
Aka mother and child, Central African Republic (2014)
Congo Pygmy father and son (Belgian Congo at War, 1942)
Pygmy family posing with a European man for scale (Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921)
Pygmy peoples
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In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature for populations in which adult me
African Pygmies
…physiology and lifestyle) Southern Twa are also grouped under the term Pygmoid. They are notable for, and named for, their short stature (described as "pygmyism" in anthropological literature). They are assumed to be descended from the original Middle Stone Age expansion of anatomically modern humans to Central…
Aka Pygmies in the Congo Basin in August 2014
A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village
Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest