Senosa: the Gold Earrings
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After the shoot we head 12 kilometers North to Senosa, the village of the huge golden earrings. So big, so heavy, that women have to wear a headpiece to hold them up, keep their ears from tearing. It’s a National Geographic village, naked kids, animals clucking and baa-ing everywhere, dusty red brown brick mud. And a lot of joy, hair-braiding and yelling. Albert leads us to the compound, but the patriarch is in Djenne and his Wife cannot find the precious heirlooms. So we go to Wife Number Two, who has her earrings safely stowed exactly where she left them. Alas, they’re not so big as #1’s, but they’re plenty big all the same.
After lunch Abdul gives us another taste of his brilliant driving and the next thing we’re in not Mopti but Sevare, some fifteen minutes outside Mopti. This is not the program, which is for us to be in Mopti for Karamo’s visa extension and shooting, and to make long story short we all decide to head into town, where Lamont’s legality is extended for a month, simply and with good humor by policeman and woman. She does the actual stamping, which is like the Invention of Printing: place 3x2 stamp in ancient red inkpad, rock, lift. Jam down on passport page and push in with two hands. ‘Tis done.
ON THE ROAD WITH BOB HOLMAN PREMIERES FEBRUARY 1ST! The show is airing on LinkTV which is available on local cable channels, online, and on DirectTV channel 375 and Dish Network channel 9410. EPISODE 1: THE GRIOTS OF WEST AFRICA (Feb. 1). EPISODE 2: TIMBUKTU TO THE DOGONS (Feb. 8). EPISODE 3: ISRAEL AND THE WEST BANK (Feb. 15). ww.linktv.org, www.bobholman.com/road, www.rattapallax.com/blog/on_the_road
After lunch Abdul gives us another taste of his brilliant driving and the next thing we’re in not Mopti but Sevare, some fifteen minutes outside Mopti. This is not the program, which is for us to be in Mopti for Karamo’s visa extension and shooting, and to make long story short we all decide to head into town, where Lamont’s legality is extended for a month, simply and with good humor by policeman and woman. She does the actual stamping, which is like the Invention of Printing: place 3x2 stamp in ancient red inkpad, rock, lift. Jam down on passport page and push in with two hands. ‘Tis done.
ON THE ROAD WITH BOB HOLMAN PREMIERES FEBRUARY 1ST! The show is airing on LinkTV which is available on local cable channels, online, and on DirectTV channel 375 and Dish Network channel 9410. EPISODE 1: THE GRIOTS OF WEST AFRICA (Feb. 1). EPISODE 2: TIMBUKTU TO THE DOGONS (Feb. 8). EPISODE 3: ISRAEL AND THE WEST BANK (Feb. 15). ww.linktv.org, www.bobholman.com/road, www.rattapallax.com/blog/on_the_road
