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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. 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. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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  • Woman at the Saturday market in Kouakourou, Mali. Africa.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two.  From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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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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  • 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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  • The Natomo family with all of their possessions on the roof of their home in Kouakourou, Mali. Published in Material World, page 14. 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. They have separate households but share meals in the courtyard of Pama's house.  From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all of their possessions.
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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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  • 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.
    Mal_mw2_757_xs.jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Viahondjera Musutua (far left), a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside her hut with members of her family in the Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend. The photograph was made in Okapembambu village, where she was raised. She is here with her youngest child helping with the corn harvest to bring back corn for her husband and children.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio co-authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, interview Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The young woman is the mother of three children and bore her first child at age 14.  The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • A Himba chief stands with his two wives outside his home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March.  The Himba culture is polygamous. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, they covers themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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