Wooden Touareg gourd

This beautiful old tinted wooden gourd has elegant patterns and traces of repairs (original) using staples or cans recovery. 40 cm radius. History: the tuareg are a people of the sahara desert. They are nomadic and are divided between niger, algeria, libya, mali and burkina faso. They move according to the seasons, all the objects of the house must fit on a camel, hence the rarity of bulky objects, moreover the wood is an extremely rare in the sahara. This gourd was used as a container to store milk. Very popular object because plastic unfortunately begins to replace traditional objects. Food bowl recover from a nomadic family near temet (a few days camel from agadès, niger).

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