Observations of the Bambuti Pygmies

The Pygmies are the nomadic hunting and gathering inhabitants of the Ituri Forest in Africa. The Bambuti are the most famous of the Pygmies and also the shortest with an average height of 4 feet 6 inches. The Bambuti hunt and gather food which they use for their own consume and for trading to their neighbors in exchange for goods and other material which are not available in the forests. The Bambuti show very little concern for afterlife and the dead are buried near the huts and the camp is abandoned.

Colin Turnbull was a Oxford-student Englishmen . Colin had an affair with the African Pygmies . He was a genius and a great anthropologist , but he was gay , he had found love with a poor African guy called Joe Towles . Colin described what happened in former Congo . When the Bambuti pygmy , went with him to the plains . Colin says “And then he saw the buffalo, still grazing lazily several miles away, far down below. He turned to me and said, 'What insects are those?' At first I hardly understood, then I realized that in the forest vision is so limited that there is no great need to make an automatic allowance for distance when judging size. Out here in the plains, Kenge was looking for the first time over apparently unending miles of unfamiliar grasslands, with not a tree worth the name to give him any basis for comparison... 
When I told Kenge that the insects were buffalo, he roared with laughter and told me not to tell such stupid lies.” This means that Kenge didn’t have experience of seeing distant objects and he saw them small at first . This observation Colin had is important for the study of perception because it lets you know that distant objects might get a different picture of what they really are .