Vessel: Footed Base, 13th century, Mali, Tellem peoples, Terracotta, H. 5 1/4 x Diam. 6 1/8 in. (13.3 x 15.6 cm), Ceramics-Containers, The Tellem are believed to have arrived at the rocky Bandiagara Escarpment in present-day southern Mali sometime during the eleventh century A.D. By the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries, the Tellem population was devastated, possibly due to famine caused by drought or Songhai and Mossi slave raids
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Vessel, Footed Base, 13th century, Mali, Tellem peoples, Terracotta, H, 5 1/4 x Diam, 6 1/8, 13.3 15.6 cm, Ceramics-Containers, Tellem, believed, arrived, rocky Bandiagara, Escarpment, present-day southern, sometime, eleventh, D, fifteenth, sixteenth centuries, population, devastated, due, famine caused, drought, Songhai, Mossi slave, raids
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