Togo - Redux
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Koutammakou is a cultural landscape designated in 2004 as an UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Kara, Togo, December 2, 2024. The Tamberma people are mostly animists, and clannish by nature. They oppose any form of domination and servitude. The Tamberma are famous for their two-story fortified houses, known as Takienta (Tata, Tata Somba or Ditammari) in which the ground floor houses livestock at night, internal alcoves are used for cooking, and the upper floor contains a rooftop courtyard that is used for drying grain, as well as containing sleeping quarters and granaries. These evolved by adding an enclosing roof to the clusters of huts, joined by a connecting wall. These mud-houses are the Tamberma preferred style of living.
Maize dries on the roof in the sun.
Minimum price 100USD
2024-12-02
Didier Ruef/Redux/Redux Pictures/East News
Redux Pictures
Didier Ruef/Redux
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7,18MB
57cm x 38cm by 300dpi
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