Travel Photographs by Rosemary Sheel

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Laundry day on the Niger. Afterwards the women will bathe themselves.A pinasse leaves Mopti harbor fully loaded.Salt slabs weigh about 60 pounds each and the camels carry 4 of them. They must be loaded and unloaded each morning and evening. The camels do not want to be loaded making the work even more arduous.Testimony to a long journey. TogoMarket day in DjenneAnother market scene in Djene. The women do not want their photo taken.A Mali milkmaid. MoptiModilgliani's muse. BamakoEntering the mosque. Djenne.Djene Mosque.Pinasse in Mopti harborPounding millet, a dietary staple in Mali. The women have fabulous physiques.A Touareg chief smokes his pipe, ignoring us. The Touareg are the Lords of the Desert even to this day.Touareg men wait beside their camels.Touareg women normally do not veil. the men do this! but this woman did not want her picture taken. Her husband gave us permission, so what she wanted was not important.A Dogon dancer dressed as a tourist. He has a white face, a camera and a gun. The men try to outdo each other with their costumes.
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Touareg women normally do not veil. the men do this! but this woman did not want her picture taken. Her husband gave us permission, so what she wanted was not important.



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