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Description: | Item number 23 on Jeremy Keenan's item list. Goat hair cord (called 'ahellum' in Tamahaq). Keenan acquired this object from Elwafil of the Kel Hirafok people. Price paid: 10 dinar. Keenan refers to fig 208 in Johannes Nicolaisen's 'Ecology and culture of the pastoral Tuareg: with particular reference to the Tuareg of Ahaggar and Ayr' (Nicolaisen, 1963, p 264, fig 208).
Two pieces of goat hair rope, called 'ahellum'.
caption: General view of Whole of Horniman Museum object no 1971.1014 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | Tuareg ropes (general & multipurpose) | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-80615 | Go to resource |
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