Tent pole ·  North Africa - Sahara, Tuareg · ID: 3036808

Description

wood, partly oily dark brown patina, remains of pigments, knob-like upper part, corpus completly decorated with ornamental and geometrical designs, rep. (breakage at the right rim), cracks, missing parts of insect caused damage, traces of abrasion, base;
Tuareg posts are used inside the tents, for dividing up the interior by special mats called “éseber”.

The object Tent pole with the object ID 3036808 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 117 achieved a sales price of EUR 210.

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