Old African Traditional Tuareg Hand Carved Wood Spoon Ceremonial Niger

Description

Old African Traditional Tuareg Hand Carved Wooden Spoon with Geometric Patterned Handle. Approximately 8" long.
ETHNOGRAPHIC CONTEXT Tuareg is a term used to identify numerous diverse groups of nomadic peoples who share a common language and a common history. Tuareg camel caravans played the primary role in trade across the Sahara until the advent of modern transportation.
The Tuareg are fiercely independent nomadic people. On the move with their herds and camels over vast areas of the southern Sahara, they produce no masks or figures but instead create an impressive world of traditional, abstract, beautiful, functional objects of leather, wood and metal. Utilitarian everyday objects are ingeniously and finely decorated as typically and traditionally "Tuareg".
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