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Old Tuareg Earring – TSABIT – Mali / Niger
$ 18.48
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Description
OldTuareg Earring – TSABIT – Mali / Niger
Early to mid 20th century.
Bronze gr. 39,2
(1.38
oz
); diameter cm. 4,0 (1.57").
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, they 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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