The Passport to Paradise gallery highlights the bold, visual images found all over Dakar by focusing upon the urban visual culture of the Mourides, a Senegalese Sufi movement centered upon the life and teachings of a local saint named Sheikh Amadou Bamba.

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head_hair
Description: B&W photo showing closeup of woman's hair style
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Rites funéraires
Description: Photo relative à des rites funéraires
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Tombeau
Description: Photo montrant un tombeau
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Préparation d'en enterrement
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Enterrement
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Habitat maure
Description: Photo d'un habitat maure
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Case en paille
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Habitat dans le Sahara
Description: Photo montant un habitat dans le Sahara
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Tente : habita peul
Description: Photo relative à un habitat peul
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Cases
Description: Photos relatives à des cases
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Faidherbe
Description: Photo de Faidherbe
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Collier
Description: Photo d'un collier
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Bracelets
Description: Photos de bracelets
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Amulettes
Description: Photos d'amulettes
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Collier de femme
Description: Photo d'un collier
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Perles
Description: Perles
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two women in front of plant
Description: Two women in front of plant showing hairstyle of the time.
Publication Date: March 18, 1960
Femme sénégalaise avec une robe longue
Description: Femme sénégalaise avec une robe longue
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Agriculture
Description: Paysans procédant à la récolte
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Coiffure en plumes
Description: Coiffure en plumes
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Coiffure de femme
Description: Photo montrant une coiffure de femme
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Coiffure de femmes
Description: Photo montrant la coiffure des femmes.
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Coiffure peule
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Vase
Description: Photo montrant un vase
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Statuette
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Statuette d'une femme
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Statuette
Description: Photo montrant une statuette
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Statuette d'un homme
Description: Photo montrant la statuette d'un homme
Publication Date: September 17, 2003
Cérémonie funéraire
Description: Photo relative d'une cérémonie funéraire
Publication Date: September 17, 2003

Sampling from L'Institut Fondemental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN)

Phil Curtin Collection

Collection Boubacar Barry

Collection Charles Becker: Recherches et documents sur le Sida

Photographs from “Passport to Paradise’: Sufi Arts of Senegal and Beyond

Mosques of Bondoukou

Futa Toro, Senegal and Mauritania

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