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Agadez Cross
The Agadez Cross (also Agadès Cross, Cross of Niger, French: Croix d’Agadez) is the most popular category of Saharan Berber jewelry made especially by the Tuareg people of Niger. Only a few of these pieces of jewelry exactly resemble a cross. For most of them, it is a pendant with a varied silhouette, related either to a cross (tanaghilt), or to a form of plate or shield (talhakim). The former is made of stone or copper. The blacksmiths generally use silver and the so-called "lost wax" casting process without ever hammering the metal. Denomination These crosses are generally called tanaghilt (tanaɣilt) or tasagalt, which means "cast in a mold". Soft stone jewelry and jewelry cut from platelets of copper, aluminum, or other metal are most commonly known as talhakim, a term used for jewelry resembling a form of plate or plate. shield. An alternative tamashek name, but which designates pendants in general, is "zakkat" . The term "kaulé" is also widespread in the Sahel. Use T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Téra-Téra Cloth
Soubane or Téra-Téra is a Nigerien handwoven loincloth. As its name suggests, it originated from the Songhai proper, Songhai region of Téra Department, Téra in the Tillaberi Region of Niger. It is worn by the Songhai proper, Songhai and Zarma people, Zarma peoples and it is seen as a cultural symbol. It is made by traditional weavers called "''tchakey''" with wool and cotton. It was generally made in two colours, the black and white loincloths. History West African cultures have been weaving textiles for thousands of years. Among Songhai/Zarma weavers, the weaving tradition is quite rigid because it is linked to a certain width of a leaf to the notches of a counter stick which allows the decorative patterns to be combined from one strip of a cotton to another so that once brought together edge to edge, they form a harmonious and meticulously calculated whole. The decorations of the loincloths of téra-téra for example include characters at the well, oxen, donkeys, camels, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zarma People
The Zarma people are an ethnic group predominantly found in westernmost Niger. They are also found in significant numbers in the adjacent areas of Nigeria and Benin, along with smaller numbers in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Sudan.Zarma people Encyclopædia Britannica In Niger, the Zarma are often considered by outsiders to be of the same ethnicity as the neighboring , although the two groups claim differences, having different histories and speaking different dialects. They are sometimes lumped together as the Zarma-Songhay or Songhay-Zarma. The Zarma people are predominantly Muslims o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songhai Proper
The Songhai proper (Songhay, Sangwai or Sonrai) are an ethnic group in the northwestern corner of Niger's Tillaberi Region, an area historically known in the country as '' Songhai''. They are a subgroup of the broader Songhai group. Even though the Songhais have so much in common with the Zarma, to the extent that some Songhais may refer to themselves and their dialect as "Zarma," both see themselves as two distinct branches of the same ethnicity. The Songhai originally were the descendants and partisans of the Sonni dynasty that retreated to this area of present Niger after the coup d'état of 1493 and that of the Askia dynasty that also moved later to this same region after the invasion of the Songhai Empire by the Saadi dynasty of Morocco in 1591. These two historical events that resulted in the mass exodus of the Songhai emptied Gao and Timbuktu of their Songhai nobles, who find themselves dispersed today in the above-mentioned region of Southwestern Niger. Aristocracy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niger
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