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Tejikant - Suporte para recipiente de leite. A ponta é enterrada na areia. Grupo Tamacheque . This is a Food Wood Post with a wooden bowl. The item is old. Post and bowl have been hand carved. High quality tribal object from the North of Mali. Milk and other food were served in the bowl and put on the post in the house or in the compound. The body of the bowl is nice decorated with a linear design. The post is decorated in concentric lines. Leather is combined with wood to give a certain hardness to the picket. About Tuareg: The Tuareg are a tribal people of the Sahara numbering today more than 300,000. They speak a Berber language, Tamarshak, and have their own alphabet. In ancient times, the Tuareg controlled the trans-Sahara caravan routes, taxing the goods they helped to convey and raiding neighboring tribes. In modern times, their raiding was subdued by the French who ruled Algeria. The political division of Saharan Africa since the 1960s has made it increasingly difficult for the Tuareg to maintain their pastoral traditions.
Tuareg society distinguishes among nobles, vassals, and serfs. Slave-stealing expeditions have been abolished, but the black descendants of former slaves still perform the menial tasks. Social status is determined through matrilineal descent. Converted by the Arabs to Islam, the Tuareg have retained some of their older rites. Among the Tuareg, for example, men -- not women -- wear a headdress with a veil.
Many Tuareg starved in droughts in the 1970s, and others have migrated to cities. After leather, wood is perhaps the most important material in Saharan daily life, and is used for the poles and beams of the nomads&.. - diâm. superior 35 cm x alt. 98 cm