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  • The Natomo family on the roof of their mud-brick home in Kouakourou, Mali, with a week's worth of food. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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  • The Natomo family with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Published in Material World, page 14. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together.
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  • The Natomo family poses for a portrait with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Standing, wearing yellow, is Soumana's father. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • The Natomo family poses for a portrait with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Standing, wearing yellow, is Soumana's father. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • Soumana Natomo's two wives and a number of their children in the community of Kouakourou, Mali, look at photographs from the initial countries shot for Material World: A Global Family Project before they decided to paticipate in the project. Mali was the third country photographed. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together.
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  • Soon after his bath, three-year-old Mamadou earns a reprimand as he climbs over his father, Soumana Natomo, who is trying to listen to a soccer game on the family radio. In the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Published in Material World, page 19. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River.
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  • Soumana Natomo and the rest of his family watch as Mamadou, 3, is given his bath. Because Fatoumata Toure, the household's second wife is still nursing a baby, Pama Kondo, the first wife, carries all the water from the village well for the family's use. In the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Published in Material World, page 19.
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  • Because the household's second wife, Fatoumata Toure, is still nursing her newest baby, Pama Kondo, the household's first wife, carries all the water from the village well for the family's use. This morning, the water has an immediate use: bathing the children in her family courtyard. In the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Published in Material World, page 19.
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  • Soumana Natomo, a Muslim, finishes his prayers at one of his two wives' homes as one of his daughters plays quietly. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Children, Child. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • Soumana Natomo holds one of his children as she naps.  The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • The children and adults in the two households of the Natomo family squat in the shady courtyard of the main house and share their communal dinner of fish and smoked rice.   Published in Material World, page 18-19. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • Members of the Natomo household sit around their communal dinner of fish and rice. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Material World Project.
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  • Members of the Natomo family eat their communal dinner of fish and rice. In the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • On market day in Kouakourou village, Soumana Natomo buys and sells rice and other grains. After haggling with the female wholesalers, he returns with two sacks of rice to store in the house that he shares with his first wife, Pama Kondo. His second wife, Fatouma Toure, is two years younger than Pama and lives in a small one-bedroom apartment up an alley 250 feet away. Published in Material World, page 17. Mali.
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  • Natomo family dinner of rice porridge cooks on the hearth over a wood fire.  Published in Material World, Meals of the World gallery, page 176. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together.
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  • A villager makes fried grain cakes called "ngome" to sell at the Sunday market in Kouakourou, Mali. Kouakourou is the home village of the Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses near the banks of the Niger River. Material World Project.
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  • Most women in Africa are excellent multi-taskers. Here a woman offers peanuts for sale to passersby on a dirt path in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, and uses the time between customers to spin cotton thread. Material World Project.
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  • Vultures pick away at a carcass of a dead cow on the dry floodplain of the Niger River in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Cattle herder with his animals on the dry river plain near the village of Kouakourou, Mali.  Material World Project.
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  • Mud termite mounds near Djenne, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Boys run and leap into the Niger River in the late afternoon at the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • A boy swims with his goat in the late afternoon in the Niger River at the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • After some boys run and leap into the Niger River in the late afternoon at the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali, one of them lies in the warm sand on the river's edge. Material World Project.
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  • Late afternoon on the Niger River in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Women and girls pound millet grain to make flour for porridge in Djenne, Mali. Talking and singing often accompany this very physical task. Material World Project.
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  • A gathering of townspeople in the village of Kouakourou, Mali during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the month for fasting, prayer, weddings, and other social activities. At the end of Ramadan, the entire village of Kouakourou, Mali, celebrated with a community dance. Material World Project.
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  • Ramadan is the month for fasting, prayer, weddings, and other social activities. At the end of Ramadan, the entire village of Kouakourou, Mali, celebrated with a community dance. Published in Material World, page 17.
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  • Ramadan is the month for fasting, prayer, weddings, and other social activities. At the end of Ramadan, the entire village of Kouakourou, Mali, celebrated with a community dance. Material World Project.
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  • A brickmaker crumbles dry weeds onto the mud mixture that will become bricks in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. The village is built of sun-dried mud bricks. Material World Project.
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  • A young boy looks bemused as he stands on the roof of his mudbrick home in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. A mound of grain is drying in the sun behind him. Material World Project.
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  • The Imam of Kouakourou village on the banks of the Niger River in Mali,  teaches a Koranic lesson to students. Several of Soumana Natomo's children attend these classes, along with classes at what they call, "the modern school" taught in French where they learn math and reading. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • The Imam of Kouakourou village in Mali teaches a Koranic lesson to students. Several of Soumana Natomo's children attend these classes, along with classes at what they call, "the modern school" taught in French, where they learn math and reading. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Material World Project.
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  • This young boy with green heart-shaped sunglasses is reading Koranic verses on a wooden tablet under the watchful eye of the Imam of Kouakourou village in Mali as he teaches a Koranic lesson to students. Several of Soumana Natomo's children attend these classes, along with classes at what they call, "the modern school" taught in French, where they learn math and reading. Material World Project.
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  • This young boy with green heart-shaped sunglasses is reading Koranic verses on a wooden tablet under the watchful eye of the Imam of Kouakourou village in Mali as he teaches a Koranic lesson to students. Several of Soumana Natomo's children attend these classes, along with classes at what they call, "the modern school" taught in French, where they learn math and reading. Material World Project.
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  • Close up shot of the Imam holding his copy of the Muslim holy book, The Koran, during a class for the children of Kouakourou Village, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Albert Gano, who grew up in Kouakourou, Mali, is a guide for tourists in Djenne. Here he is visiting his mother's home in the village of Kouakourou, pouring tea for guests as his mother watches. Material World Project.
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  • Boys on the banks of the Niger River in Kouakourou, Mali, sport sunglasses made in China. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait (1994), pages 12-13.
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  • A woman carries her family's laundry down to the Niger River in Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Young boys pound millet grain to make flour for porridge in Kouakourou, Mali. Talking and singing often accompany this very physical task, which is usually done by girls and women. Material World Project.
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  • Women and girls pound millet grain to make flour for porridge in Djenne, Mali. Talking and singing often accompany this very physical task. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 16.
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  • Fatoumata breast-feeds her child while cooking dinner on a wood fire at her co-wife's home compound, Kouakourou, Mali. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • Because it is Ramadan, the month when Muslims fast during the daylight hours, everyone is working at a slower pace than usual. Indeed, some men use the occasion to lounge about for hours, dazzling passersby with their most elegant outfits. Even during the rest of the year, though, men can often be seen resting quietly in shady spots throughout Malian villages while their wives pound grain, wash clothes, care for children, cook, and gather firewood. Published in Material World, page 16. Mali.
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  • Albert Gano, who grew up in Kouakourou, Mali, is a guide for tourists in Djenne. Here he is vistiting his home village, taking tea with friends. Material World Project.
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  • Fish from the nearby Niger River will be dinner for Albert Gano's family in Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • The village of Kouakourou, Mali, at dusk, with a view of its mud brick mosque (Muslim) in the distance. Material World Project.
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  • A farmer waters his vegetable garden in Kouakourou, Mali, with water he draws from the Niger river. Material World Project.
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  • A friend ties her baby to her back with a piece of fabric after an afternoon visit with Pama Kondo in the Natomo family compound courtyard in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, an isolated community between Djenne and Mopti on the banks of the Niger River. Relaxing with one of her children is Pama, and 11 year old Pai leans against the mud brick wall. Published in Material World, page 18. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River.
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  • A woman carrying water in a plastic teapot in a traditional manner walks to the city of Djenne, Mali, on market day.  Published in Material World, page 20. Material World Project.
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  • A woman carries some pots down to the Niger river to wash them at sunset in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • A baobob tree and a famer cultivating his field by hand at sunset near the W. African village of San, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Girls take a break from washing clothers and dishes in the Niger river at sunset in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Girls take a break from washing clothes and dishes in the Niger river at sunset in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Sunset in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Material World Project.
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  • Bamako, the captial of Mali in W. Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Earthen walled, thatch roofed graineries in the village of Somo, Mali (West Africa). Material World Project.
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  • Fatoumata Toure stirs a pot of porridge on the roof of her home in the village of Kouakourou, Mali. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. Architecture. Published in Material World, page 20-21.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. It is often a location for temporary markets and sales people. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. It is often a location for temporary markets and sales people. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. It is often a location for temporary markets and sales people. Material World Project.
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  • In the distance is the mud-walled Great Mosque in the African city of Djenne, in Mali was built decades ago on the ruins of a 13th-century mosque. Published in Material World, page 20-21.
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  • The mud-walled W. African city of Djenne, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • A two story house in the mud-walled W. African city of Djenne, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • A two story house in the mud-walled W. African city of Djenne, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • A two story house in the mud-walled W. African city of Djenne, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Artisan's courtyard in a two story house in the mud-walled W. African city of Djenne, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Children in front of the mud-walled mosque (Muslim) in the W. African town of San, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Villagers pass in front of Marlboro billboard on the main road  in the W. African town of San, Mali during market day. Material World Project.
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  • Girls and women outside the mud walled mosque (Muslim) on Friday at mid day prayers in the W. African town of Tigona, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled mosque (Muslim) on Friday at mid-day prayers in the W. African town of Tigona, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled mosque (Muslim) on Friday at mid-day prayers in the W. African town of Tigona, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • The mud-walled mosque (Muslim) in the W. African town of San, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).The Natomo family on the roof of their mud-brick home in Kouakourou, Mali, with a week's worth of food. Family members: Soumana Natomo, 46, sits flanked by his two wives, Fatoumata Toure, 33 and Pama Kondo, 35. Soumana and Fatoumata's children are daughter Tena, 4 months, daughter Fourou, 12, son Kansy, 4, and son and daughter Mama, 8, and Fatoumata, 10. Soumana and Pama's children are son Mamadou, 10, son Mama, 13, and son and daughter Kantie, 16, and Pai, 18. To Pama's left is Kadia Foune, 33, Soumana's sister-in-law, with her children Kantie, 1, and Mariyam, 8. The Natomo family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 206).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Soumana Natomo of Kouakourou, Mali, wraps his head and face for protection against many different elements. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 212). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Fatoumata Toure. The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Pama Kondo. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Glancing up at a visitor, Fourou: the twelve-year-old daughter of Soumana Natomo's second wife, Fatoumata, takes a momentary break from the family breakfast of thin rice porridge cooked with sour milk. Like most families in their village in Mali, the Natomos eat outdoors, sitting on low stools around a communal pot in the courtyard of their house. The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • By 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, Kouakourou's weekly market has transformed the usually quiet shoreline of this Niger River backwater into a throng of bustling, thatch-shaded stalls and sharp-prowed traders' boats from up the river and down. Soumana goes to the market every week to buy and sell grain with his two wives, Pama and Fatoumata. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 209). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Soumana Natomo (far left, in blue) walks into the village market. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. Grocery stores, supermarkets, and hyper and megamarkets all have their roots in village market areas where farmers and vendors would converge once or twice a week to sell their produce and goods. In farming communities, just about everyone had something to trade or sell. Small markets, like the one pictured here, are still the lifeblood of communities in the developing world.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). After pounding rice into flour in a large wooden mortar, Pama Kondo sifts it to get rid of any remaining hulls. Behind her, 10-year-old Fatoumata (daughter of Fatoumata Toure, Pama's co-wife) does much the same with some sorghum. Can she foresee a day when she will no longer have to pound grain? "That's what children are for," she replies seriously. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 212). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • On market days, Fatoumata Toure stops cooking early to work with her co-wife Pama Kondo. They acquire and unload grain in bulk and then sell it in smaller quantities to individuals and families. Soumana Natomo spends much of his time overseeing his working wives. Occasionally, he makes a trip to their single-room storehouse to replenish the grain his wives are selling. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 211). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). In the predawn light, with little Tena bundled onto her back, Fatoumata Toure crouches in the street outside her apartment and lights a fire under the griddle she uses to cook ngome, thick pancakes made from finely pounded corn or millet flour, oil, and salt. Her house is only a minute's walk from the larger home of her co-wife Pama Kondo. Fatoumata repeats this streetside routine every day except Saturday, when she sells ngome breakfast cakes at the village market. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 211). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The morning that the family broke the news to Pai that she was to marry her cousin, Baba, they all had breakfast together in the courtyard of Soumana's house. According to custom, the couple then spent the day apart, Pai weeping openly over the loss of her childhood. The next day at the wedding party, Pai's mother Pama was dry-eyed while Fatoumata wept. She said that Pai had always been there to help with the babies and that she would be missed. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 213). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • A slaughtered cow rolls on a cart through the dusty mud-brick village of Kouakourou, Mali, destined for sale that day at the nearby Saturday market. Because the town has no electricity, and thus no refrigeration, this family will sell all their meat by sunset of the same day that the cow was slaughtered. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 210). This image is featured alongside the Natomo family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). On Sunday, ignoring a half-eaten tomato in her henna-stained hand, 18-year-old Pai somberly contemplates what she has just learned: later today she will formally wed her first cousin, Baba Nientao, and then move to his home in Ivory Coast. None of the parents attend the ceremony. Instead, Pai's girlfriends raucously lead her (hidden under a shawl) to the Town Hall, where she and Baba sign their marriage license alone with the mayor. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 214). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • .Before the family broke the news to Pai that she was to marry her cousin, Baba, the imam, elders and other men of the family pray at the marriage agreement. According to custom, Pai will not know about the marriage arrangements until the morning of the ceremony. The couple will then spend the day apart, Pai weeping openly over the loss of her childhood. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Earlier this morning, 18-year-old Pai somberly contemplated what she had just learned: later today she was to formally wed her first cousin, Baba Nientao, and then move to his home in Ivory Coast. None of the parents attend the ceremony. Instead, Pai's girlfriends raucously lead her (hidden under a shawl, shown here) to the Town Hall, where she and Baba sign their marriage license alone with the mayor. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 215). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Pama Kondo (center, in blue) at the wedding celebration of her daughter Pai. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • An American documentary about a Los Angeles SWAT police team show being watched by Soumana Natomo and other men and boys in the village of Kouakourou on the banks of the Niger River in Mali. There is no electricity in the village. The television is powered by a car battery that is charged by a photovoltaic solar cell on the roof of the pharmacy behind the men. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Natomo family is one of the thirty families featured with a weeks worth of food in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • On a warm Saturday afternoon, a young boy with fresh watermelon slices uses the tray for shade as he walks through Kouakourou, Mali, seeking buyers. He pauses by the outdoor barbershop where Soumana Natomo and a group of men are watching a documentary about a Los Angeles SWAT team. Their black-and-white TV is powered by a car battery charged by a solar panel on the roof of the small pharmacy next door. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 217). This image is featured alongside the Natomo family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Pama sweeps the courtyard where she and her co-wife Fatoumata cook the meals for their large family. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55). The Natomo family of Kouakourou, Mali, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Two local girls washing dishes in the Niger River. Kouakourou, Mali. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Vegetable gardens in Kouakourou, Mali irrigated with Niger River water. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Tilapia from the Niger River being cooked over a wood fire in Kouakourou, Mali. (From a photographic gallery of fish images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 205).
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  • Enthusiastic pupils pay close attention in an adult class on budget techniques. Kouakourou, Mali. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A young boy with elephantiasis looks in on his school classroom during a math class. Kouakourou, Mali. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Woman winnowing grain in a village outside of Mopti, Mali near the Niger River. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Store with non-perishables and dry goods in Djenne, Mali. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats).
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  • Toilet on a Niger River boat that dumps into the river in Mali.
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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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