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Sunset over the Niger River near Kabara, Mali. A 13-kilometre-long artificial canal connected Kabara with Timbuktu since the 17th century. The canal was used by pirogues and sailing ships. It served to transport people and goods and connected Timbuktu with the Niger. This canal dried up again and again in modern times and is now silted up and only visible as a ditch in some places. - Mali - 1969

A herd of dromedaries refreshes itself in the Niger River - Kabara - Mali - 1969

Pier of the pirogues on the river Niger - Kabara - Mali - 1969

This Moor waits for a job in the port of Kabara. - Mali - 1969

Silver and leather working is an important craft. The sword scabbard of a takouba is made here. - Kabara - Mali - 1969

The blacksmith, the malem, is the master of fire. He makes the silver jewellery, the weapons, the camel harnesses. Here the malem pulls a takuba out of the scabbard. The blacksmiths form a caste of their own. They are despised and at the same time feared by sedentary and nomadic people. –Kabara – Mali – 1969

A basket trader advertises her wares. - Port of Kabara - Mali - 1969

The dromedary is a common domestic animal throughout North Africa. The southern limit of distribution is in the Sahel zone from Senegal to Sudan at about 13-15 degrees north latitude. - Kabara - Mali - 1969