TUAREG LEATHER PANEL 1, Niger

 

Photographs © Tim Hamill

TUAREG, LEATHER PANEL 1, 32x27", 64x27" extended, $400, SOLD, Niger

Note: Leather panels 1 -5 are photographed folded in half, approximately the way they were used. ( See views of this panel, Number 1, front and back ). They can be stretched out flat, making them twice as long, with fringe at both ends. The underside is also leather but much plainer.

The Tuareg are fiercely independent nomadic people. On the move with their herds and camels over vast areas of the southern Sahara, they create an impressive world of traditional, functional objects of leather which was their primary material due to its durability, lightness and flexibility. Masters of geometric abstract design, the Tuareg fashioned objects ranging from saddlebags to cushions to tent mats that were painted and molded, embroidered, engraved and fringed.

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