Buras

 

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Here terra cotta, and stone statuettes of the system of Bura.

The Bura style, characterized by terra cotta figurines, with the flattened heads, with typical scarifications, are located in the south-western of Niger and est of Burkina Faso (see map ).
The discovery of the bura vestiges is one of the greatest archaeological African discoveries of the 20 century.
The essential of what one knows of the Bura culture is based
on their artistic production.