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Burkina Faso

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, head of the village of Ouadara posing with its attributes (bow and arrows, fly swatter) and a calabash of millet (cereal) beer

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, head of family posing with bow and arrows in front of the entrance of his house in the village of Lakar

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, the "madman" of the village of Lakar, as in many other civilizations, the original has a sacred character, he makes laugh by his jokes but he is also respected because the spirits speak through him

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, decorated French veteran who has, dixit, "made Indochina, Algeria and Paris 18th district" posing with a handmade pistol in his farmyard

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, the "old" Houliéné Kambou, peasant and hunter, posing with bow and arrows

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, chief of the village of Lakar and priest of the Earth (the dithildaar) next to one of his altars, posing with bow and arrows

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, young Lobi coming out of his father's house with the attributes of the initiates: bow, quiver and hoe

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, peasant posing with bow and arrows with his two wives and his son in front of their house

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, inside a Lobi house, one of the many interior accesses to the terrace by a ladder carved from a tree trunk

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, Lacar, house entrance with powder guns, each family Lobi has a small arsenal always ready to serve to face a possible attack of the house or the village

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, Lacar, house entrance of the Lakar village chief with a balafon (ritual) suspended as well as bows and arrows which always have to be at hand even in time of peace

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, Lakar, chief of the village of Lakar with seven of his wives and some of his children on the terrace of his house where the condiments and spices are dried

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, Lakar, house under construction whose walls in clay (banco) are built by strips of earth superimposed

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, calabash for dolo (sorghum or millet beer) on the roof of a house, it has the characteristic of refreshing the drinks it contains

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, Lakar, young lobi flautist in Lakar, the flute, mainly the bamboo flute, is one of the most sacred instruments and is often used during ceremonies such as initiations or funerals

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, wives of the village chief of Lakar pounding millet (cereal)

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, Ouadara, children with stone-throwers behind the tomb of their brother, the lance-thrower is often the first weapon of the young lobi until his initiation

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, balafon and drums at "first funerals" (burial)

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, dances around the balafon during "second funerals" in the village of Tonmpéna, several months after the first, they consecrate the arrival of the deceased among the ancestors

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, Lakar,

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, burial or "first funeral ceremonies", the deceased is endowed with valuable pieces to pay her "passage of the river" for the world of the afterlife

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, tree in front of a house in the village of Ouadara beneath which there is a tomb and several altars, there is always a tree in the immediate vicinity of each house as much for the shade that it brings as for its fruits, a great part of the social life takes place there: the men discuss and drink the "dolo" while the women busy themselves with their basketwork or to shell out peas

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, tree in front of a house in the village of Ouadara beneath which there is a tomb and several altars, there is always a tree in the immediate vicinity of each house as much for the shade that it brings as for its fruits, a great part of the social life takes place there: the men discuss and drink the "dolo" while the women busy themselves with their basketwork or to shell out peas

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, blacksmith with his apprentice, he is the craftsman who manufactures iron tools (hoes, arrowheads ...) but also forges a strong bond with the world of ancestors

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, children standing next to the two main altars of their father's house, links with the spirits and the ancestors

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, group of women in the courtyard of the family home preparing millet and shea butter

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, old woman, wife of the priest of the Earth (the dithildaar) of Ouadara

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Gaoua and Loropéni region, peasant and his fetishes in the region of Dagbola, non-traditional fetishes intended to put his family on guard against the colonial and more generally white

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Gaoua and Loropéni region, peasant and his fetishes in the region of Dagbola, non-traditional fetishes intended to put his family on guard against the colonial and more generally white

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, lobi woman holding her sick child

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, veteran of the French army

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, wood carver from the village of Nianntana

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, Houliene Kambou with his little twin sons

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, Houliene Kambou with his little twin sons

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, farmer and hunter in his yard posing with the attributes of the initiates: the bow, the quiver and the hoe

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, old man of the Gan ethnic group with one of his grandchildren in the village of Obire

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, statue of one of the ancestors of Gan King in the village of Obire, the kings who marked their passage by a brilliant action have the privilege of having a statue erected in their memory inside a personal hut

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, The King of the Gans (now deceased) in the village of Obire, he poses here in his dress suit with golden thread but without his horse who died ten years before and that he did not have the money to replace

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, The King of the Gans (now deceased) in the village of Obire, he poses here in his dress suit with golden thread but without his horse who died ten years before and that he did not have the money to replace

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Gaoua and Loropéni region, non-traditional fetishes intended to put on guard against the colonial and more generally the white people

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, making of a couple of figurines, fetishes in earth in the village of Ouadara

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, wives of the village chief of Lakar pounding millet (cereal)

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, Set of hoes

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, Peasant in his farm yard posing with his family

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, decorated French veteran who has, dixit, "made Indochina, Algeria and Paris 18th district" posing with his family in his farmyard

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, on the track from Gaoua to Loropéni, trucks are often used as public transport

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, on the track from Gaoua to Loropéni

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, children in front of their house in clay (banco)

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, Houliene Kambou with one of his sons and one of his brothers, armed with bows and arrows but also with a rifle

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, Altar and fetish which are the links with the spirits and the ancestors

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, inside a Lobi house, one of the many interior accesses to the terrace by a ladder carved from a tree trunk

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, farm yard, corn and sorghum crops in the background

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, making of the traditional Sorgho beer by women (here the wives of Celestin Kambou), fireplace where is put to boil the drink that will become the dolo also called tchapalo

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, peasants posing with bow and arrows in the farmyard

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, young girl Lobi

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, young Lobi in front of his father's house with the attributes of the initiates: bow, quiver and hoe

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, young mother Lobi carrying her child on the track from Gaoua to Loropéni

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, children of the Gan ethnic group in the village of Obire

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, veteran of the French army in military coat and two of his little sons

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, little boy Lobi

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, Houliene Kambou with his little twin sons, wall painting by artist Hans Bouman in 1992

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, the man with the pipe

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni region, Lobi farms in the midst of sorghum crops

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, peasants posing with hoe in the farmyard in front of the mainhouse

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, the painter Hans Bouman in 1992

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    • Burkina Faso, Poni province, Lobi land, Loropéni, the photographer Bertrand Rieger in 1992

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