Old Tuareg Leather Bag – Scroll - Niger

Description

Old
Tuareg Leather Bag
- Scroll - Niger
Leather, red fabric.
Approx. cm. 24,5 high x 10,5 width (9.64
”
x
4.13”
).
This old bag contains a scroll in the front.
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, 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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