Pygmies use banana leaves and palm leaves as clothing materials, and elephant bones, beetles, antelope horns and tortoise shells as necklaces and bracelets. Because of frequent visits, pygmies have also learned to wear clothes. But the clothes they wear are given by tourists and will not be made by themselves.
Breast milk makeup They mashed all kinds of wild fruits collected and mixed the juice with women's milk to make cosmetics. Because of the different kinds and colors of wild fruits, the cosmetics are colorful. Dwarf women like heavy make-up. They draw geometric figures on their faces to enhance aesthetic feeling, exorcise evil spirits and show good luck.
Pygmies don't need bricks and sand to build houses. Using local materials and branches of banana leaves or palm trees, they built an oval hut with a height of 1.5 meters. The huts are built in order according to the small communities, and each family is connected to form a circle, and the house of the elders is located in the center of the circle. The light in the forest is dim, and the small house is hidden in tall plants, so it is easy to avoid the attack of wild animals.
Each hut covers an area of five or six square meters. There is a fire on the stone in the middle of the house. There is a clay pot on it. The trunk is used horizontally as a stool, and bows and arrows, hides, ivory and antelope horns are hung on the wall. Nothing else. On weekdays, the family sleeps on the ground paved with hides and weeds. Despite their simple life, pygmies live happily. Far from the noise of the city and the interference of war, they set up their own "Peach Blossom Garden" in the dense forest.
Pygmies (singular, pygmies) are not a race, but a race in which the average height of all adult males in the whole nation is lower than 150 cm or 155 cm. For a slightly longer race, it is also called "dwarf". It is well known that pygmies grew up in Central Africa, such as Aka, Effie and Mbuti.
In Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, there are also Pygmies or some similar nigri Tuo people.
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population distribution
African pygmies live in the following countries: Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia, mainly in central and western Africa.
African pygmies can be roughly divided into the following races:
1, the most famous of which is mbenga, including the Akka and Baka people living in the western Congo Plain;
2.Mubuti, including Efe and other ethnic groups living in the Ituri rainforest, and
3. The Twa people living in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
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Pygmies first appeared in the late Stone Age. They were originally residents of the tropical rain forest in Central Africa, and they were a group of hunters and gatherers. Later, they were absorbed or replaced by Bantu farmers, new immigrants nearby, and they learned to use their language.
Therefore, the languages currently used by African pygmies are all local languages in Central Africa, including Central Sudanese, Adamaoua-Ubangia and Bantu. However, this view has not been supported by archaeology at present, and the research of genetics and linguistics has not provided clear proof.
The extremely low ultraviolet level in the tropical rain forest may be the cause of pygmies' short stature, because ultraviolet light is an essential element for human skin to produce vitamin D, and vitamin D will also affect the absorption of calcium by human body, thus affecting the growth and maintenance of bones.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Pygmies