Old Tuareg Leather Bag - Scroll - Niger
Leather, red fabric, aluminium ; approx. cm. 31,0 x 14,0 (12.20” x 5.51”).
This old bag contains a scroll in the front.
The Tuareg people inhabit a large area, covering almost all the middle and western Sahara and the north-central Sahel . They are probably descended from the ancient Libyan people of the kingdom of the Garamantes , described by Herodotus. Tuareg are mostly nomads. For over two millennia, the Tuareg operated the trans-Saharan caravan trade connecting the great cities on the southern edge of the Sahara via five desert trade routes to the northern coast of Africa (Mediterranean).
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