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Description: | Item number 43 on Jeremy Keenan's item list. Large sewing needle called 'tasugla', or 'tasubla' in Tamahaq. Keenan acquired this object from Umeyda of the Kel Hirafok people. Price paid: 10 dinar. Keenan refers to fig 220b in Johannes Nicolaisen's 'Ecology and culture of the pastoral Tuareg, with particular reference to the Tuareg of Ahaggar and Ayr' (Nicolaisen, 1963, p 276, fig 220b).
This needle would have been part of sewing paraphernalia kept in sewing bags such as 1971.1028 and 1971.1029.
Long iron needle of square section, flattened at point. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | Tuareg metal needles (textileworking: needlework) needles iron | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-48264 |
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