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The Dogon by José Azel
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Watering the Garden

A Dogon man waters onion gardens in the village of Sangha.

The garden is fertilized with pigeon guano that is gathered from the Bandiagara cliffs.

Introduced by the French in the 1930s, onions are the Dogon's only cash crop.

The onions are dried into balls and shipped to the Ivory Coast to be sold as an ingredient for sauces.

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