Mali Heritage Sites Gallery

Mali, Timbuktu

Mali, Timbuktu. An Islamic teacher corrects a child's homework on a wooden slate' in Timbuktu. Since ancient times, Timbuktu has been a place of Islamic learning. There are numerous madrasa there to this day

© Nigel Pavitt/John Warburton-Lee Photography Ltd

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Women of Sudan in striped robes, Timbuktu, and Tibbo people

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

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

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West African Tuareg Horse Warriors

West African Tuareg Warriors, in traditional veiled headdresses, all mounted on fine horse and carrying spears and enormous shields. The Tuareg are a Berber nomadic pastoralist people, known as the 'People of the Veil'. The wearing of the Alasho veil by Tuareg men originates from the belief that such action wards off evil spirits. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection