camel-saddle
- Museum number
- Af1933,0113.11
- Description
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Camel saddle made of leather, wood, hide, wool (goat), brass.
- Dimensions
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Height: 70 centimetres
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Width: 38 centimetres
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Depth: 60.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethdoc 243 - undated note from ?donor
This is presumably:
Camel saddle. As made round Agadez south of the mountains of Air, French West Africa. These saddles are even used by the [?Arabs] of the Northern Sahara and they are very proud of them in that district. The Tuaregs of the Central Sahara have developed a better saddle than this, simpler in design, but better shaped, very light and very strong, for true camel 'craft'..
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1933
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1933,0113.11
