Colin Macmillan Turnbull was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People and The Mountain People, and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.
Colin Turnbull holding a friend's baby, Gainesville, Florida, 1993
The Mbuti people, or Bambuti, are one of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa. Their languages are Central Sudanic languages and Bantu languages.
A group of Mbuti, with American traveller Osa Johnson, in 1930
Mbuti net-hunter in Okapi Wildlife Reserve