Snapshots - Dogon Granaries 4

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Town at base of Bandiagara escarpment, Mali, June 1998
Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre


Looking up from the path that leads into the Dogon community, the large granary is perched atop a stone retaining wall. At the end of the harvest each year the crops are placed in baskets which are in turn placed in the granaries.







revised February 23, 1999