File:Brooklyn Museum 1989.51.39 Nommo Figure with Raised Arms.jpg
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The Tellem are thought to have occupied the region of the Bandiagara escarpment until the sixteenth century. The human form with raised arms is a common pose for Tellem sculptures and is said to refer to prayers for rain, crucial in this dry region.
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