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Basket salesmen carrying baskets, market day, Bandiagara, Mali, June 1998 Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre |
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Basket salesmen carrying baskets, market day, Bandiagara, Mali, June 1998 Photo ©1998 by L. Lee McIntyre |
On the morning of market day a group of men who earn their living making baskets carry their new baskets to a stall where they will be offered for sale. In Dogon mythology the square bases of the baskets represent the Dogon fields, and the circular rims represent the encircling horizon in a contrast that is a metaphor for cosmic and human realms.