Malian 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 - 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

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