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Pounding millet (Slide 9) , Mboumba, Senegal. Large mortars & pestles were used to pound the the millet seed in order to separate the grain from the chaff. The rhythmic pounding was part of the village soundtrack, sometimes accompanied by song.

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Dates: Mboumba, Senegal. Large mortars & pestles were used to pound the the millet seed in order to separate the grain from the chaff. The rhythmic pounding was part of the village soundtrack, sometimes accompanied by song.

Camel (Slide 12-13), 1980 March

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Mboumba, Senegal

Dates: 1980 March

Cemetery in Gamadji, Senegal (Slide 19-20), 1980 March

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Every village has a cemetery close by. New graves are covered by thorn branches to prevent critters from digging.

Dates: 1980 March

Bennett's Family in Gamadji, Senegal (Slide 21), 1980 March

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Bennett lived in a typical, multi-generational family compound.

Dates: 1980 March

Motorcycles (Slide 26), 1980 March

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Podor, Senegal. Peace Corps issued Yamaha 80s--essentially useless minibikes rather than solid dirt bikes. I left mine in Podor and relied on my feet in the village and public transportation to go anywhere else.

Dates: 1980 March

Mama et Fifi with Raky Oumou Wane in Mboumba, Senegal (Slide 35) , 1980 April

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My sister, Raky Oumou, and her family lived in Nouakchott, Mauritania, but visited occassionally. The twins were darling.

Dates: 1980 April