TUAREG, TIGETTEWIN FORKED POST 111, Niger

          

Photographs © Hamill Gallery

TUAREG
Forked Post 111
17 " high x 3.25" wide x 1" deep
$100

This post has been vetted as authentic.

This forked post has been "wired" with transparent fishline to hang on a wall. Although the wood is extremely hard, this tigettewin post has an eroded end. Because of that it would be difficult but not impossible to be mounted. The ends of the tips on one side are broken off (see detail below).

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.

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