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House,meeting area (Casa palava) and granary in Dogon House on Bandiagara plateau,designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1989
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers leap in the air at the Dogon village of Tereli which is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is performed at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali, Bandiagara Escarpment, Songho. In 'Dogon Country' Songho village's ritual circumcision site decorated with rock paintings
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Mali,Dogon Country. An attractive Dogon village on top of the Bandiagara escarpment. The toguna or men’s meeting house is the domed-shaped building on the skyline with dried grass on the roof. Dwellings have flat roofs while the square granaries have pitched thatched roofs.
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Mali,Dogon Country. A decorated cave wall at the attractive Dogon village of Songho on top of the Bandiagara escarpment. The circumcision of boys takes place here each year after which the initiates draw pictures or patterns of their choice on the wall using natural pigments.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers wearing the satimbe mask perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. This mask honours the primordial woman who is said to have discovered the original Dogon masks. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country. A traditional Dogon house with a finely carved door at Sangha,an attractive Dogon village built among rocks on top of the Bandiagara escarpment.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A mask dance at the Dogon village of Tereli which is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is performed at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country. A finely carved old Dogon door of a traditional house at Sangha,an attractive Dogon village built among rocks on top of the Bandiagara escarpment.
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Mali, Bandiagara Escarpment, Songho. In 'Dogon Country' Songho village's ritual circumcision site decorated with rock paintings
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Granaries at Tereli - a typical Dogon village at the base of the 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked stilt dancers wearing coconut shells as breasts perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country. A traditional Dogon house with its walls covered with fetishes at Sangha,an attractive Dogon village built among rocks on top of the Bandiagara escarpment.
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Close-up of granary door depicting ancestors of the Dogons, village in the Dogon area, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mali, West Africa, Africa
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked stilt dancers wearing coconut shells as breasts perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Grain stores in Irelli Village, Bandiagara Escarpment, Dogon area, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mali, West Africa, Africa
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali, Bandiagara Escarpment, Songho. A view of Songho village in 'Dogon Country' amidst the outlying cliffs of Bandiagara.
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Mali, Bandiagara Escarpment, Songho. In 'Dogon Country' Songho village's ritual circumcision site decorated with rock paintings
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Granary structure and house in Dogon Village at the base of the Bandiagara plateau,designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1989
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Mali,Dogon Country. A finely carved old Dogon door of a traditional house at Sangha,an attractive Dogon village built among rocks on top of the Bandiagara escarpment.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Koundu. The women of the Dogon village of Koundu pound their millet communally on a large flat rock near their village.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked stilt dancers wearing coconut shells as breasts perform at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Goats and grain store in Dogon village, Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali, West Africa, Africa
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Dogon houses built into cliff at the base of the Bandiagara plateau,designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1989
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers wearing the fifteen-foot-high Sirige mask and stilt dancers perform at the Dogon village of Tereli which is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Sangha. A young man dressed in traditional Dogon attire. The unusual hat is peculiar to the Dogon people.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer wearing coconut shell breasts performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country. An old man operates a narrow loom at Songho,an attractive Dogon village on top of the Bandiagara escarpment. Mali is Africa’s second largest producer of cotton.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked stilt dancers wearing coconut shells as breasts rest on a high wall at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Koundu. A small settlement built among rocks near the Dogon village of Koundu. Dwellings have flat roofs while granaries to store millet have pitched thatched roofs. The Dogon are animists. The sacred earthen mound on the right with an ostrich egg on top is an altar used for sacrifices by the village hogon or priest to appease the ancestors and purify the village.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Banani. Attractive Dogon villages built among cliffs and rocks at the foot of the 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. Recent development has taken place on top of the escarpment.
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Mali,Dogon Country. The attractive Dogon village of Songho on top of the Bandiagara escarpment. Dwellings have flat roofs while the square granaries have pitched thatched roofs.
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Village of Tereli, near to Sanga, Bandiagara escarpment, Dogon area, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mali, Africa
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Mali,Dogon Country,Sangha. A woman returns home from washing clothes in a nearby river with her child slung on her back and a large metal bowl on her head.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. The typical Dogon village of Tereli situated among rocks at the base of the 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. Dwellings have flat roofs while granaries to store millet have pitched thatched roofs.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. The village elders of Tereli in traditional indigo dress wait for the start of a mask dance. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. The piercing eyes of a masked dancer wearing the fifteen-foot-high Sirige mask at the Dogon village of Tereli which is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Portrait of masked ceremonial Dogon dancers near Sangha, Bandiagara escarpment, Dogon area, Mali, West Africa, Africa
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Mali,Dogon Country. An attractive Dogon village on top of the Bandiagara escarpment. Dwellings have flat roofs while the square granaries have pitched thatched roofs.
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Decorated cliff wall at Dogon ritual site, Songo Village, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bandiagara Escarpment, Dogon Area, Mali, Africa
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Mali,Dogon Country. Dogon women carry their farm produce to the small but popular weekly market at Tereli.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Koundu. The attractive Dogon village of Koundu built among rocks beneath a sandstone cliff of the 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. Dwellings have flat roofs while the numerous granaries to store millet have pitched thatched roofs.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Banani. Part of the Dogon village of Banani situated at the foot of the 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The Dogon’s burial caves are sited in the almost inaccessible sheer sandstone cliffs behind the village. The caves were originally used by the Tellem who were driven out by the Dogon in the fifteenth century.
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Escarpment, Bandiagara, Dogon area, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mali, Africa
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer wearing coconut shells as breasts performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Typical roof and architecture of Dogon culture - located in Mali
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Mali,Dogon Country. An old man,prayer beads in hand,rests near the mosque at Songho.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer leaps high in the air at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. A masked dancer wearing the fifteen-foot-high Sirige mask gyrates at the Dogon village of Tereli which is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is performed at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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Mali,Dogon Country,Tereli. Masked dancers wearing the buffalo mask performs at the Dogon village of Tereli. Tereli is situated among rocks at the base of the spectacular 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The mask dance is staged at funeral ceremonies to appease the dead and speed them on their way to the ancestral world.
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The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some beautiful Dogon architecture
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Mali,Dogon Country. Children gather at the entrance to Bongo tunnel which is a natural rock formation near Sangha,an attractive Dogon village built among rocks on top of the Bandiagara escarpment.
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The Dogon are best known for their mythology, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and their architecture.
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Toguna is a building where men discuss affairs and take important decisions in the toguna. It is a low building in which one cannot stand upright. This helps avoiding violence when discussions get heated.
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The Bandiagara Escarpment is an escarpment in the Dogon country of Mali. The Dogon are best known for their mythology, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and their architecture.
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Masked ceremonial Dogon dancer near Sangha, Bandiagara escarpment, Dogon area, Mali, West Africa, Africa
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Representation on the wall of animals and Dogon masks, Mali (Africa).
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The principal Dogon area is bisected by the Bandiagara Escarpment. The Dogon are best known for their mythology, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and their architecture.
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Monkey skulls embedded in mud wall to protect against evil spirits, Dogon village of Telle, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mali, Africa
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Granaries in a Dogon village, Mali (Africa). The Dogon are best known for their mythology, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and their architecture.
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Granaries in a Dogon village, Mali (Africa). The Dogon are best known for their mythology, their mask dances, wooden sculpture and their architecture.
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Toguna is a building where men discuss affairs and take important decisions in the toguna. It is a low building in which one cannot stand upright. This helps avoiding violence when discussions get heated.
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Meeting area (Casa palava)-symbols of beings that protect meeting areas in the Dogon Village built into cliff at the base Bandiagara plateau,designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1989
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Mali,Dogon Country. A scene near Sangha,an attractive Dogon village built among rocks on top of the Bandiagara escarpment. The men's meeting house,or Toguna,is on the skyline.
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The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some beautiful Dogon architecture
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Kola Nut (Cola) is the nut of the kola tree, a genus of trees native to the tropical rainforests of Africa.
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The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some beautiful Dogon architecture
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The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some beautiful Dogon architecture
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Early in the morning, sunrise in the Dogons Land on the lake and view on the mosque of the village.
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The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some beautiful Dogon architecture
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Mali,Dogon Country,Banani. Burial caves of the Dogon near Banani in almost inaccessible sandstone cliffs of the 120-mile-long Bandiagara escarpment. The caves were originally used by the Tellem who were driven out by the Dogon in the fifteenth century.
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