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Description: | Item number 24 on Jeremy Keenan's item list. Weaning device (called 'abegu' in Tamahaq). Keenan acquired this object from Nati, who acquired it when visiting the Kel Hirafok people. Price paid: 30 dinar. Keenan refers to fig 41 in Johannes Nicolaisen's 'Ecology and culture of the pastoral Tuareg: with particular reference to the Tuareg of Ahaggar and Ayr' (Nicolaisen, 1963, p 61, fig 41).
An 'abegu' is a plaited pouch to prevent the sucking of camel calves. The pouch has cords for the attachment to the hind part of the she-camel, so that the pouch covers the udder.
Weaning device, a plaited grey cloth pouch. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | weaning devices Tuareg textile Food and Feasting | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-48290 |
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