Women waiting to watch girls dancing on the third day of a funeral festival for the late hogon – religious leader – of the Dogon village of Sanga, Mali, July 2004	While the women and girls were preparing to dance, some men improvised a masque in the village square representing masked raiders – perhaps Tuaregs – attacking a woman and being driven off by other men
A man playing a masked raider in the improvised drama	Lines of girls weaving across the open space between different sections of the village
Crowd control methods were simple and direct	A queue of girls waiting to dance	A woman marshals a group of little girls waiting to take part in the dance