TUAREG ART, Niger

TUAREG Ehel Posts

TUAREG Hoe Currency

TUAREG Blades

TUAREG Forked Posts

TUAREG Bela Post 53

TUAREG Iron Warmers

TUAREG Amulets

TUAREG Platform Legs

TUAREG Igem Posts

TUAREG Bazawat Bowls

TUAREG Bracelet, Currencies

TUAREG Plain Bowl 51

TUAREG Low Bowls

 

TUAREG Leather Bags SOLD

TUAREG Leather Bags 2 SOLD

TUAREG Leather Bags 3 SOLD

TUAREG Bowl Supports SOLD

TUAREG Veilweights SOLD

TUAREG Pendants SOLD

TUAREG Bela Posts SOLD

TUAREG Locks SOLD

TUAREG Posts SOLD

TUAREG Wallets SOLD

TUAREG Saddles SOLD

TUAREG Mats

TUAREG Cushions

TUAREG Leather

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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 wonderful 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.