TUAREG ART, Niger

TUAREG
Ehel
Posts
 

 

TUAREG
Igem
Entrance Posts

 

TUAREG
Platform
Legs

 TUAREG
Posts 
Page 2

TUAREG
Forked
Posts

 

TUAREG
Bowls and
Supports

 TUAREG
Bela
Posts



TUAREG Keys



TUAREG Leather Bags

TUAREG Cushions



TUAREG Locks

 

TUAREG Saddles

 

TUAREG Mats

 

TUAREG Posts

 

TUAREG Leather

TUAREG
Bracelet,
Currencies

TUAREG
Pendants

Photographs © Hamill

TUAREG Art , Niger

The Tuareg are fiercely independent nomadic people. On the move with their herds and camels over vast areas of the southern Sahara, they produce no masks or figures but instead create an impressive world of traditional, abstract, beautiful, functional objects of leather, wood and metal.

Leather was their main material; the Tuareg tanned, painted, embroidered, molded, engraved and fringed it to make saddles, colorful travelling bags, milk jars and tent mats, all portable and befitting these "Nobles of the Desert".

The intricate forms of their wooden tent posts juxtapose woderful abstract patterns in negative and positive space.

Famous for their jewelry, the Tuareg employ the same elaborate aesthetic when also fashioning geometric layers of silver, brass and copper into their inventive locks and keys.

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