Old Tuareg Belt – Niger

Leather, small bronze rings, cowries, glass beads. Cm 73,0 without the leather stands (28.74″); Cm 133,0 with the stands (52.36″).

Tuareg are mostly nomads. For over two millennia, the Tuareg 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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