MALI INTERACTIVE Photo Archive
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	Pot Making Nyamoye Sounkono, a potter in Jenné, adds a rope of clay to make a base for a small bowl used for washing hands.
	Pot Firing Potters are removing newly-fired pots and bricks. Jenné is in the background, and you can see from the stacks of bricks how much clay people remove from the floodplain. That's a major reason that mounds like Jenné and Jenné-jeno get larger and higher.
	Discovery of Mud Brick Wall The discovery of this mud brick foundation of a round house was a surprise in this unit. The city wall we had hoped to find extending down a meter or more turned out to consist of a single row of foundation bricks, two of which can be seen below the stake in the upper right hand corner of the photo.
	David Adjusts Satellite David adjusts the dish of the satellite telephone transmitter/receiver, which is on the roof of our house and pointed at a communications satellite circling the earth at the Equator.
	Kitchen in Mali Yama's kitchen is a small, windowless room with several wood fires burning. Here, Nana (Yama's helper) prepares our dinner.
	Excavation photo We took advantage of a huge ravine created by erosion to clean up a section through the archaeological deposits and to study the stratigraphy for clues as to how and when the mound was formed.

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