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Quicktake Camera
Yama Traoré and her family react to seeing a Quicktake photo of Yama minutes after it was taken. This is their first encounter with digital photo technology.

David Meets with Ambassador
David has an opportunity to talk with the U.S. Ambassador to Mali, Dr. David Rawson.

Piroque
David and Annick in a pirogue, the sewn plank canoe used by the fishing peoples of the Middle Niger.

Tatta and Djenaba

Almamy Traoré

Project Team
Mali Interactive Project team members.

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.

The Blacksmith's Apprentice
BahAlkoye Sounono, age 12, at work in the blacksmith's workshop where he is an apprentice.

Roof
View from our rooftop over the houses of Jenne

The sixth grade class at the Djenné public school
The sixth grade class at the Djenné public school. Fewer than half the 69 students in the classroom fit in the photo!

The Market at Djenné
In the huge market square in front of the mosque, they set up little lean-to's made of wood and thatch with their goods on display such as different fruits, plastic containers, calabash ladles, clothes, meat, and pots.

Approaching Djenné
After two days in Bamako we left for the town of Jenne 400 miles to the northeast where we would be doing the work. It took us over twelve hours.

Large erosion gulley at Jenne-Jeno

Jenné Mosque

Storm approaching Jenné

Cattle crossing the Niger River

Inland Niger Delta landscape

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Icon	Title / Description
	Quicktake Camera Yama Traoré and her family react to seeing a Quicktake photo of Yama minutes after it was taken. This is their first encounter with digital photo technology.
	David Meets with Ambassador David has an opportunity to talk with the U.S. Ambassador to Mali, Dr. David Rawson.
	Piroque David and Annick in a pirogue, the sewn plank canoe used by the fishing peoples of the Middle Niger.
	Tatta and Djenaba
	Almamy Traoré
	Project Team Mali Interactive Project team members.
	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.
	The Blacksmith's Apprentice BahAlkoye Sounono, age 12, at work in the blacksmith's workshop where he is an apprentice.
	Roof View from our rooftop over the houses of Jenne
	The sixth grade class at the Djenné public school The sixth grade class at the Djenné public school. Fewer than half the 69 students in the classroom fit in the photo!
	The Market at Djenné In the huge market square in front of the mosque, they set up little lean-to's made of wood and thatch with their goods on display such as different fruits, plastic containers, calabash ladles, clothes, meat, and pots.
	Approaching Djenné After two days in Bamako we left for the town of Jenne 400 miles to the northeast where we would be doing the work. It took us over twelve hours.
	Large erosion gulley at Jenne-Jeno
	Jenné Mosque
	Storm approaching Jenné
	Cattle crossing the Niger River
	Inland Niger Delta landscape