Perception In the Pygmies of the Congo

            Colin Turnball was a British Anthropologist who in 1959 traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to learn more about the indigenous tribe living there, the BaMbuti Pygmies. This tribe got its name from their small stature.Because the deep in the forest with hardly any visibility, being small is especially  helpful in climbing trees. Tunballs' main goal of his exhibition was to bring back items from the tribes' daily lives to contribute tot the Museum of Natural History in England. 

           While there, he discovered something he didn't expect to. While he and a Pygmie he had befriend were driving into an open field with Buffalo grazing, the Pygmie asked what kind of insects those where. In his mind, he couldn't see that the Buffalo were small because they were far away. Upon driving closer, and the animals getting bigger, Kenge, the Pygmie, thought that it was witchcraft how somehow the buffalo were shrunk then grew. This happens again at a large lake where Kenge can't see the figure how so many people can fit onto one boat the size a floating piece of wood where in reality its a quite large boat, just far out on the lake. Turnball discovered that size consistency was the problem. Kenge couldn't see that the herd was smaller because they were far, and bigger because they were closer. In conclusion, distance and perception is learned over a period of time in your early childhood. 
             A limitation for this experiment could possibly be that it was just one individual. Maybe it was just Kenge that was affected by this. Because this wasn't experimented on any other Pygmie, we won't know for sure if this is a continued occurrence in the tribe.