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Photo 98 – UBB-HAA-34

Selling agricultural crops provides cash income for local Fur farmers. Most selling takes place at the weekly souq (Arabic for “market”), but sometimes in the home of a cultivator. In this photo, a Fur is selling millet (Fur: “sona”) to an Arab trader.

In a village of the western foothills of Jebel Marra, Western Darfur.

Photo: Gunnar Haaland, 1965

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Photo 99 – UBB-HAA-303

The weekly market  (Arabic: “souq”) is important in the Fur village economy. In this photo, a Fur woman is selling dried tomatoes (Fur: “futta”) and dried ochre (Fur: “faga kirro” – literally meaning “black ochre”) to an Arab trader at the souq of Amballa.

Amballa, Western Darfur.

Photo: Gunnar Haaland, 1965

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