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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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