Forked Post 104 24" high $125 |
Forked Post 106 25" high $125 |
Forked Post 107 22.5" high $75 |
Forked Post 108 20" high $100 |
Forked Post 109 19" high $100 |
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Forked Post 111 17" high $100 |
Forked Post 114 20" high $100 |
Forked Post 115 25" high $100 |
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Forked Post 117 23.25" high $50 |
Forked Post 118 17.5" high $100 |
These posts have been vetted as authentic.
Forked posts 82-98 have been mounted; the iron bases are included.
Forked posts 101-113 have been "wired" with transparent fishline to hang on a wall. Because of erosion at the bottoms many would be difficult but not impossible to have mounted.
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. We have photographed them to show the small flaws in the details.
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