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ADOUMA + pirogue

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Sep 10, 2017 8:11 pm

The stamp issued by Gabon shows how the mail was transported in the old days via the waterways in the country.
Two men from the Adouma tribe in Gabon poling a pirogue, transporting the mail in a box in the pirogue, most probably on the Ogooué River. On the pirogue I have not any detail.

The Adouma (or Duma) are an ethnic group of Gabon, in western Africa. They primarily live on the south bank of the upper Ogooué River, in the vicinity of Lastoursville (originally an Adouma village), and are known as expert canoeists or boatmen.
Their traditions hold that they arrived from the east or southeast, coming down the Sebe River to the Ogowe, and thence to the Doumé rapids. They made canoes of Okoumé, and sold slaves to the Okandé, receiving European products such as guns and cloth in exchange. The Société du Haut-Ogooué (SHO) established a post at Lastoursville and engaged the Adouma in trade for rubber, ivory, and ebony.
During the 1970s and 1980s, many Adouma moved down the Ogowe, towards Port-Gentil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duma_people
Gabon 1969 30f sg377, scott?
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