Mali Collection

Mali, Africa - Young women from Timbuktu
Mali, Africa - Two young women from Timbuktu Date: circa 1910s

Mali, Africa - Two women from Timbuktu Date: circa 1910s

Girl from Mali with wonderful beads and headdress
Young Soninke Girl from Mali wearing wonderful beads and beaded headdress. The Soninke (also called Sarakole, Seraculeh, or Serahuli)

A hand-painted sign showing the time it would take to reach Timbuktu in Mali (52 days) if one were to set off across the Sahara Desert on a camel

Boeing 727-173C N695WA (msn 19509 / 459), of Air Mali, at Bamako airport. Date: circa 1972

Scenes in the Sahara desert, Africa, 1820
Frederick Horneman reading the Koran to the Berbers of Siwa Oasis 13, a caravan greeting the Sultan of Fezzan 14, and a traveller left behind in the desert

View of the city of Timbuktu, Mali. Drawn by the French explorer Auguste Rene Caillie in 1828. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Old man from Central Sahara - Africa - Remarkable headdress
Old man from Central Sahara (Mali?) - Africa wearing a remarkable headdress cap adorned with sea shells. Date: circa 1904

Mali - Bani River, principal tributary of the Niger River
Mali - A covered dugout canoe on the Bani River, the principal tributary of the Niger River. Date: circa 1907

Mali - Timbuktu - A fine portrait of a local man with staff
Mali - Timbuktu - A fine portrait of a hirsute local man with bamboo staff and steely gaze... Date: circa 1909

West African Tuareg Horse Warriors
West African Tuareg Warriors, in traditional veiled headdresses, all mounted on fine horse and carrying spears and enormous shields

Three girls of The Mandinka - West Africa
Three girls of The Mandinka (Malinke, Mandinko or Mandingo), a West African ethnic group. Their arms are entwined with a pole running behind their backs. Date: 1910s

Mali - Tuareg men from Timbucktu
Mali - Two Tuareg men from Timbucktu, holding spears. The Tuareg are a Berber nomadic pastoralist people, known as the People of the Veil

Wood Market - Timbuktu, Mali, West Africa - a scarce commodity in the arid desert landscape of Central Mali. Date: circa 1910s

MALI. TIMBUKTU. Tombouctou. Adobe traditional

Poster advertising the Ellora Caves, India
Poster by V A Mali, advertising the Ellora Caves, India. Printed for the Government of India by Bolton Fine Art, Bombay. Date: circa 1930

Shooa women with baby, Kanem spearman, and Bambara bowman.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Women of Sudan in striped robes, Timbuktu, and Tibbo people.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Mali, Timbuktu - The Market, Sankore Mosque and Hugueny Fort Date: circa 1903

Mali - Timbuktu - Moorish Camps / settlements north of the town. Date: circa 1910

Mali - Timbuktu - The Ponds (Mares) - Fetching water
Mali - Timbuktu - The Ponds (Mares) - Large excavations dug out of the sand to draw up water from the depths. Date: circa 1910

Native Furnace - near to Bamako, Mali, West Africa. Date: circa 1909

Mali - Timbuktu - The Ponds (Mares) - Large excavations dug out of the sand to draw up water from the depths. Date: circa 1907

Pycnodus zeaformis Longbottom, fish tooth plate
Corn-on-the-cob fish tooth plate from a paratype specimen dating from the Lower or Middle Eocene phosphates; Tamagu?lelt, Gao region, Mali

Chergach meteorite

Great Mosque of Djenn鮠s. XIV. MALI. MOPTI. Djenn鮠
Great Mosque of Djenn鮠 s.XIV. MALI. MOPTI. Djenn鮠 Shongai art. Rebuilt at the beggining of 20th c. African art

MALI. TIMBUKTU. Tombouctou. Djinguereber Mosque

MALI. Cliffs of Bandiagara

MALI. MOPTI. Teli. Cliffs of Bandiagara

Mosque at Bamako, Mali - Adobe Architecture
Mosque at Bamako, Mali - A fine example of West African Adobe architecture. Date: 1927

Somono family and home
A Somono family by their hut. The Somono are a tribe living in Mali and known as excellent river fishermen, operating on the River Niger. Date: circa 1920s

Big Game hunter sending his last postcard
A big game hunter who has (what rotten luck!) become a lunchtime snack for his intended victim (a very jolly lion) sends his last address which is: In Red Lion, Timbuktu !!!!!!! Date: 1906

Vehicle which crossed the Sahara Desert
A Citroen caterpillar half-track vehicle which crossed the Sahara desert, travelling 3200km in 22 days between Touggourt, Algeria and Timbucktu in Mali (between 17th December 1922 to 7th January 1923)

Timbuktu, Mali - House belonging to Caille
Timbuktu, Mali - the house owned and occupied by the French explorer Rene Caille in 1828

Timbuktu, Mali - House belonging to Barth
Timbuktu, Mali - House belonging to German Explorer Heinrich Barth (occupied 1853 - 1854)

Timbuktu, Mali - House belonging to Lenz
Timbuktu, Mali - the house owned and occupied by the Austrian explorer Lenz in 1880

Timbuktu, Mali - Local Musician (cartoon)
1st prize at the Timbuktu Conservatoire! A local musician playing a simple guitar-like instrument, played with a bow

Timbuktu, Mali - The Wood Market
The Wood Market - Timbuktu, Mali

Timbuktu, Mali - Sankore Mosque
Timbuktu, Mali - the Sankore Mosque (constructed c.11th century) can be seen rising about the mudbrick rooftops in the North of the city

Mali - Team who crossed Sahara in 16 months
Captain Buchanan, Ali (the camel!), Sakari (Kano) and Feri N Gashi, who along with Mr T. A. Glover (photographer) were the original expedition

Mosque in Mali - Adobe Architecture
Mosque in Mali, West Africa, a wonderful example of Adobe architecture with villagers standing in the foreground

Mali - Timbuktu - Water Carrier and Banana plant
Timbuktu, Mali. A water carrier standing alongside a Banana plant

Mali - Timbuktu - official buildings

Mali - Timbuktu - Home of Laing
Timbuktu, Mali - the house owned and occupied by the British explorer Laing during September 1826

Mali - Timbuktu - Tuaregs
A group of Tuareg Horsemen and foot soldiers - Timbuktu, Mali

Barth / Timbuktu / Camel
TOMBOUCTU (TIMBUKTU) reached by German traveller Heinrich Barth during his exploration of West Africa

Mali / Djenne 1896
Djenne, Mali, West Africa: reconstruction of the old mosque

Mali / Segou-Sikoro 1893
Segou-Sikoro, Mali, West Africa: the French palace viewed from the river

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