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Camel saddle ("Tamzak")

1997
20th C.
Africa, Niger
32 3/8 x 29 3/8 x 14 1/2 in. (82.2 x 74.6 x 36.8 cm)

By (primary)
Kaggo Oumba Nigerien, active 20th century

Culture/People: Tuareg peoples, Kel Ewey group

Medium: Wood, leather, and metal

Credit Line: Gift of Rita Barela and Thomas K. Seligman

Accession Number: 2005.102

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Provenance

Thomas K. Seligman Collection, (#97:8) purchased Niamey, Niger, 1/10/1997 from artist Kagga Oumba; Thomas K. Seligman and Rita Barela, San Francisco, CAS

Bibliography

Thomas K. Seligman and Kristyne Loughran, eds., Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor for Visual Arts at Stanford University and UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, 2006 (exhibition catalogue), pp. 78-79, fig. 4.6 (repr.); Cantor Arts Center Journal, IV, 2004-2005, p. 66 (repr.)

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