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About 40 years old, this Tuareg tobacco pouch is long and slim with interwoven leather plaiting and the traditional multicolored fringes which separate the braided portion from the compartments that open up, one after the other, to hold special small items that represented the necessities of everyday life in the desert.
C721 Long plaited pouch $85
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Also about 40 years old, this Tuareg tobacco pouch is molded as a fairly deep square in hand-tooled burgundy leather with accents of red and turquoise leather highlighted by white leather stitching. C722 Deep square pouch $75
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Multi-pleated deep garnet leather, hand-tooled and stitched in white, is ornamented still further by turquoise and gold leather squares overstitched with fine black thread. Braided strap pulls it closed. (7")
C757 Tuareg purse $60
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Camel-skin containers stained with geometric russet lost-wax decorations, are carefully molded into rounded forms with elegant lids. Each is unique, but all display lovely translucence when placed in front of a light source on a desk, table, shelf, or window-ledge. The parchment box is called a "bata"and is used for perfume, cosmetics, silver jewelry, or tobacco. Fabricated initially on a clay form, it is then covered with powder, and the dried, paper thin camel-skin is applied. Linear designs are made with waxed string, using no patterns. The "battochi" are then dyed the deep red from the sorgo plant, which is like millet. The wax threads are removed, leaving a white, transparent motif. (3" - 5")
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