Snapshots - Market Scenes 13

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Market on non-market day, Bandiagara, Mali, June 1998
Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre


On days when the market is not being held the marketplace is a dry, dusty, rather forlorn place. In some African communities in other countries, such as the Yoruba of Nigeria, the empty market is used for performances of masks.







revised February 23, 1999