Bura

The Bura were dedicated to grazing and farming and were installed in the Burnu region 250 km north of Lake Tchad, in the highlands north of Bin. Excavations carried out over the years 1983 revealed some funerary urns that appeared in the necropolis. The neck of these funerary vessels, sort of phallic jars, is topped with heads of flat, ovoid faces with scarifications or whole characters, even mounted on horseback, most of them in fragments. The analyses carried out allow dating this culture that flourished northwest of Niamey between the centuries XIV a XVIFrom the remains found, it is known that they practiced the cult of the deceased. Several styles have been found within constants. Some of these pieces present ritual scarifications. Once they had fulfilled their function in funeral ceremonies they were buried, destroyed or recovered for domestic worship.