TUAREG, TIGETTEWIN FORKED POSTS ARCHIVES, Niger

TUAREG Forked Post 81 44.5" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 88 31" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 87 48" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 94 19.75" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 95 19.5" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 89 29.5" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 82 54" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 83 60" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 84 53.5" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 85 53.5" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 86 47" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 96 20.5" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 97 24.75" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 101 20" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 102 21" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 103 19.5" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 105 24.5" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 91 25.75" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 93 22" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 112 14.5" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 113 14" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 101 20" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 102 21" high SOLD

TUAREG Forked Post 103 19.5" high SOLD

These posts have been vetted as authentic.

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.

Wood was carved into posts of many inventive forms, all intricately covered with geometric designs. Forked tigettewin posts were used in various ways in each Tuareg family's tent, holding leather bags or supporting one end of a wooden rod which in turn held saddle and camel bags.

Although the wood is extremely hard, some of the tigettewin posts have eroded ends, splits or cracks.