Dogon - Dogon - Mali (No reserve price)

Djenné, the capital of the Cercle of the same name, located 130 km southwest of the regional capital Mopti and about 570 km northeast of the national capital Bamako, is one of the oldest cities in sub-Saharan Africa. Inhabited since 250 BC, the site of Djenné developed into an important market and city for trans-Saharan gold trade. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the city was a center of Islamic diffusion.
Characterized by an intensive and remarkable use of earth, especially in its architecture, the city is famous for its mosque, civil constructions, monumental houses with carefully composed facades, and its urban fabric. Its traditional dwellings, adapted to seasonal floods, are built on small hills, as the annual flooding of the Niger and its tributaries is an essential natural phenomenon, both in the Djenné region and throughout the interior of the delta.