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Mali,Mopti. A Fulani man wearing a traditional hat takes home a goat that he bought in a weekly market. The Fulani are predominantly pastoral people scattered over many parts of West Africa.
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Mali,Mopti. A pinasse river boat on the Niger River at Mopti in the early morning. These comfortable boats with outboard engines take tourists and other passengers up and down the Niger River between Goa,Timbuktu,Mopti and Djenne.
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Mali,Mopti. A huge gathering of brilliantly dressed Muslim men pray to Allah at an open-air service to commemorate the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. This celebration is known as Idd el Fitr.
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Mali,Mopti. A huge gathering of brilliantly dressed Muslim men kneel to pray to Allah at an open-air service to commemorate the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. This celebration is known as Idd el Fitr.
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Mali,Mopti. A fine ram is scrubbed clean in the Niger River at Mopti before being slaughtered to celebrate the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in a celebration known as Idd el Fitr.
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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,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. 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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Mali,Mopti. A Fulani Woman wearing large 14-carat gold earrings. Kwottenai Kanye earrings are either a gift from her husband or inherited on the death of her mother. The top of each earring is bound with red wool or silk to protect the ear. The blades of the earrings are beautifully patterned.
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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,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. 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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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. 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,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. 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,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 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. 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,Mopti. A pirogue acts as a ferry to transport people across a tributary of the Niger River to Mopti.
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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,Mopti. Two men chatting outside Mopti mosque after afternoon prayers. This fine Sudan-style mosque was built in 1935 and recently repaired to its former condition.
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Mali,Mopti. At sunset,a boatman in a pirogue ferries passengers across the Niger River to Mopti.
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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,Niger Inland Delta. At dusk,a Bozo fisherman casts his net in the Niger River just north of Mopti.
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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,Mopti. At sunset,a boatman in a pirogue ferries passengers across the Niger River to Mopti.
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Mali,Mopti. A Fulani man wearing a traditional hat watches his cattle drink at a seasonal water hole. The Fulani are predominantly pastoral people scattered over many parts of West Africa.
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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,Mopti. A Fulani man wearing a traditional hat. The Fulani are predominantly pastoral people scattered over many parts of West Africa.
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Blocks of salt on river bank, with pirogues in background, Mopti, 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,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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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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Djenne Mosque, the largest mud structure in the world, Djenne, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Niger Inland Delta, Mopti region, Mali, West Africa, Africa
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Mali,Mopti. The faithful being called to prayers in the fine Sudan-style mosque at Mopti which was built in 1935 and recently repaired to its former condition.
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A pirogue loaded with passengers is poled along the Niger River near Mopti. The slender wooden canoes are the traditional craft for fishing and transporting passengers and livestock on the Niger.
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Mali,Mopti. Women chop firewood in the Fulani quarter of Mopti close to the Mopti Mosque.
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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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Mali,Dogon Country. Dogon women carry their farm produce to the small but popular weekly market at Tereli.
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Pirogues (Niger River water taxis) jostle to meet an incoming passenger ferry near the port of Mopti. The slender wooden canoes are the traditional craft for fishing and transporting passengers and livestock on the Niger.
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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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Djenne Mosque, the largest mud structure in the world, Djenne, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Niger Inland Delta, Mopti region, Mali, West Africa, Africa
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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,Mopti. A cluster of fine millet granaries at a Bobo village near Mopti. The small community of Bobo people is Christian.
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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,Mopti. Two old men entering the mosque at Mopti for prayers. This fine Sudan-style mosque was built in 1935 and recently repaired to its former condition.
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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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Mali,Mopti. A Fulani Woman wearing large 14-carat gold earrings. Kwottenai Kanye earrings are either a gift from her husband or inherited on the death of her mother. The top of each earring is bound with red wool or silk to protect the ear.
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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. 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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A tourist sits atop a pinasse (motorised riverboat) as it makes it way along the Niger River between Mopti and the port of Korioume at Timbuktu
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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,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. 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. 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 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,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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Mali,Niger Inland Delta. A busy Bozo fishing village on the banks of the Niger River just north of Mopti.
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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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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,Mopti. At sunset,a boatman in a pirogue ferries passengers across the Niger River to Mopti.
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Mali,Mopti. A Fulani man wearing a traditional hat. The Fulani are predominantly pastoral people scattered over many parts of West Africa.
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Portrait of a Fulani woman wearing traditional gold earrings, Mopti, Mali, West Africa, Africa
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Mali,Mopti. The swimming pool and surrounds of the Kananga Hotel at Mopti.
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Wide angle of a green Foosball photographed in the street of Mopti in Mali
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