The Bura site consists of many individual necropoleis with coffins crested by unusually distinctive terra cotta statuettes.
[1] The clay and stone anthropomorphic heads of the ancient and medieval Bura culture have been sought for their unusual abstraction and simplicity.
[2] Unfortunately, widespread looting and smuggling have followed this commercial demand, and so many of the Bura culture sites have been negatively impacted.
[3] Le Monde concludes that "90 percent of Niger's Bura sites have been damaged" by looters and vandals since 1994.
[4] Other Bura artifacts have been large terracotta burial jars (both tubular and ovoid) and varied funerary pottery.