Mali Heritage Sites Gallery

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Timbuktu in Africa, as drawn by Rene-Auguste Caillie, the first European visitor, 1828.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of Caillie's illustration

© North Wind Picture Archives

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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

View of part of the town of Timbuktu from a hill, illustration from Journal

XIR156810 View of part of the town of Timbuktu from a hill, illustration from Journal d'un Voyage a Tombouctou et a Jenne, 1830 (engraving) by Caillie, Rene (1799-1838); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; French, out of copyright

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