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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. The Natomo family, with the few new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. The Natomo family, with the few new possessions they have acquired since the shooting of the photograph of the family with all of its possessions for the 1994 book Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Pama Kondo's second eldest daughter, Pai, 18, at center in pink, has just been married to her first cousin, Baba Nientao, who has come back from the Ivory Coast where he has lived with his family since he was 12 years old. The arranged marriage was revealed to Pai the morning of the marriage, as is the custom, and she took part in the ritualized mourning for her lost youth but is all smiles now. Her mother, Pama is in pink, at right, and her mother's co-wife Fatoumata Toure is at right, just behind her.
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  • Soumana Natomo stands outside his small earthen grain shed, which sits above the weekly market grounds of Koukourou, his village located between the market town of Mopti and Djenne, Mali. He watches the merchants come by boat via the Niger River, in the early morning before the market begins, to set up stalls to sell their wares. Material World Project.
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  • Grain trader Soumana Natomo and his second wife Fatoumata Toure discuss purchases and sales at the Saturday weekly market in their village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Grain trader Soumana Natomo (in blue) negotiates prices during market day in Kouakourou, Mali. Africa, Work. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Kouakourou Village, Mali. Pama Kondo's second eldest daughter, Pai, 18, at right with blue cup, will be married today to her first cousin, Baba Nientao (at left holding green cup), who has come back from the Ivory Coast where he has lived with his family since he was 12 years old. The arranged marriage was revealed to Pai this morning by her father, as is the custom, and she is quiet as part of the ritualized mourning for her lost youth. Her mother, Pama, center, serves the children a grain drink and her mother's co-wife Fatoumata Toure is at right.
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  • Raising the flag before school in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. Children, Child, Africa. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Peanut and grain sellers in Kouakourou Village, Mali, on Market day.
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  • Market day in Koukourou, Mali. Africa. Grain trader Soumana Natomo (at right in blue) opens a sack of grain at the Saturday market in his village of Kouakourou, on the banks of the Niger River, between the market town of Mopti, and Djenne. One of his two wives, Pama Kondo (in yellow) measures rice for a customer. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Woman at the Saturday market in Kouakourou, Mali. Africa.
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  • A soccer match, and later a TV crime show from Los Angeles, on a black and white car-battery-powered television holds a large, rapt audience of village men outside the barber's area in Kouakourou, Mali. The car battery is recharged by a photovoltaic solar cell on the roof of the barbershop. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001. Africa.
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  • Disabled boy gets a helpful push on his tricycle wheelchair from a friend on the way to school in the village of Kouakourou, Mali.
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  • Red-gold sunset near the village of Kouakourou, Mali, Africa. This man has come from a neighboring village to the Saturday market on his motorbike. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Soumana Natomo relaxes and watches scores of well-wishers dance in the narrow dirt lanes of his village of Kouakourou, Mali. They are on their way to the town hall to witness the official marriage license signing, which only his daughter Pai and her soon-to-be-husband sign.
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  • The chief of Kouakourou, Mali. Africa. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • A young girl pays attention to her teacher in math class in Kouakourou village public school, Mali. Africa, Child, Children, Education. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Close up of a boy's leg that is affected by elephantiasis in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. Elephantiasis is a largely irreversible enlargement and thickening of tissues; specifically, the enormous enlargement of a limb caused by obstruction of lymphatics by filarial worms (especially Wuchereria bancrofti).
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  • Pama Kondo (in yellow) talks with family members and friends in her courtyard as her daughter Pai gets her hair styled for her wedding. Pai, 18, will be married today to her first cousin, Baba Nientao, who has come back from the Ivory Coast where he has lived with his family since he was 12 years old. The arranged marriage was revealed to Pai this morning, as is the custom, and she is quiet as part of the ritualized mourning for her lost youth.
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  • Freshly slaughtered beef on a cart, for sale in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. Africa.
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  • A child comforts his little brother, who is feverish with malaria in Kouakourou, Mali. The toddler wears charms and herbs to ward off illness.
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  • Soumana Natomo waves to a fellow villager in Koukourou, a mud walled village on the banks of the Niger River, between the market town of Mopti, and Djenne, Mali. Africa.
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  • Mal.mw2.70.xs..Young girl with tightly woven hair, Kouakourou, Mali. Child, Children, Africa..
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  • Clothes dry on the mud walls on rooftops of homes facing the Grand Mosque of Djenne, Mali.
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  • The Niger Riverbank in the village of Kouakourou fills with merchants and buyers each week on Saturday market day. Soumana Natomo, a grain trader (far back, at top, in blue) stands in front of his grain storage room. He and his two wives will haul grain out to sell. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project Natomo family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Raising the flag before school in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Blanket salesman at the Kouakourou village, Mali, Saturday Market. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Some women, such as this blanket merchant at the Saturday market in Kouakourou, Mali from the Bozo cultural group, have facial scars, tattoos, and dyes applied. They are considered marks of beauty.
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  • An elderly guest enters the Natomo home on the day of Pai's wedding clowning around to the amusement of the men sitting in the entryway of Soumana Natomo's mud walled home in Kouakourou, Mali. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Mali, 2001.
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  • Men pass the mud walled Grand Mosque, in Djenne, Mali. Muslim, Islam, Religion, Africa.
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  • Vibrant colors in a mud and plaster walled room in a house in Djenne, Mali. Africa.
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  • A young boy walks by two goats and a stream of raw sewage flowing through a street, Djenne, Mali. The culprit seems to be incremental progress; running water has been introduced into households in Djenne, but there is no sewage system to take care of the resulting effluent. Africa.
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  • The mud walled Grand Mosque, in Djenne, Mali provides an impressive backdrop to daily life for foraging goats. Work, Muslim, Islam, Religion, Architecture. Africa.
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  • Women carry firewood past the impressive mud walled Grand Mosque, in Djenne, Mali.
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  • Worshipers perform ritual washing before prayers at the Grand Mosque in Djenne, Mali. Africa.
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  • Fuzbol (also spelled fusbol) players and merchants outside the Grand Mosque, Djenne, Mali. Africa, Games, Muslim, Islam, Religion, Africa.
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