Two million Tuareg traditional herders were historically nomadic tribal peoples who traversed the Sahel region and the Sahara Desert in an area the size of Western Europe in the North African countries of Mali, Niger, Libya, Algeria, Chad and West African Burkina Faso. Called the “Blue Men of the Desert”, they are famous for their blue skin from the indigo-dyed garments they wear for protection from desert sun and wind. As followers of Islam, they are prohibited from creating figures or masks and use their artistic talents to create exceptional functional metal, wood, and leather objects embellished with abstract geometric designs including elaborate horseshoe shape manillas with massive terminals decorated with hand chasing. Their unique massive horseshoe shape manillas were not made for daily wear but were used to display personal wealth, currency for livestock and other items and for dowries ritual events and celebrations and were easy to carry and transport their wealth. After decades of colonization, destabilization, drought, famine, economic and political shifts and migrations to urban areas, the Tuareg nomadic lifestyle has changed dramatically.
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For centuries, the Tuareg were nomadic tribal people who traversed the Sahel region and Saharan Africa Desert. Like most African peoples, they created arm and ankle bracelets to serve as symbols of wealth, status, wearable adornments, for ceremonies of births, coming of age, marriages and burials, trade for animals and agricultural goods and as a…
Historically nomadic tribal people who traversed the Sahel region and Saharan-Africa, the Tuareg in Mali and Niger, like many African peoples, created arm and ankle bracelets that were easy to transport and had many uses: wealth and status symbol, fashion adornments, for ceremonial use for births, coming of age, marriages, and burials, to trade for…
Two million Tuareg traditional herders were historically nomadic tribal peoples who traversed the Sahel region and the Sahara Desert in an area the size of Western Europe in the North African countries of Mali, Niger, Libya, Algeria, Chad and West African Burkina Faso. As followers of Islam, they are prohibited from creating figures or masks…
Historically nomadic tribal peoples who traversed the Sahel region and Saharan-Africa, for centuries the Tuareg created African metalwork and jewelry in the form of arm and ankle bracelets that were symbols of wealth and status, fashion adornments worn ceremonially for births, coming of age, marriages and burials, used to trade or barter for animals and…
Tuareg traditional herders were nomadic tribal peoples who traversed an area the size of Western Europe in the Sahel region and the Sahara Desert and in the North African countries of Mali, Niger, Libya, Algeria, Chad and West African Burkina Faso. Followers of Islam, they are prohibited from creating figures or masks and use their…
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