Tuareg Wooden pulley water well Old African Sahara desert Niger Mali Art

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Tuareg Wooden pulley water well Old African Sahara desert Niger Mali Art
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Authentic old carved wooden pulley used to pull load of water out of the ground.
This type of pulleys were / are used in Niger by the people of Tuareg and are mounted over the well.
The size of the pulley is approximately 5 1/2" ( 14 cm ) x 4 1/4" ( 11 cm ) and this is a small size pulley.
The pulley is in good condition with some wear, damages and cracks due to age and usage.
Tuareg is a term used to identify numerous diverse groups of people who share a common language and a common history. Tuareg camel caravans played the primary role in trans-Saharan trade until the mid-20th century when European trains and trucks took over. Goods that once were brought north to the edge of the Sahara are now taken to the coast by train and then shipped to Europe and beyond. Tuareg history begins in northern Africa where their presence was recorded by Herodotus. Many groups have slowly moved southward over the last 2,000 years in response to pressures from the north and the promise of a more prosperous land in the south. Today, many Tuareg live in sedentary communities in the cities bordering the Sahara that once were the great centers of trade for western Africa. Although most Tuareg now practice some degree of Islam, they are not considered Arabic.
TYPES OF ART : Much Tuareg art is in the form of jewelry, leather and metal saddle decorations, and finely crafted swords.
LOCATION : Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali.
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This is not a print ! its a real oil paint !
A unique piece of Authentic African Art !
Hand painted Ghana movie posters are unique pieces of Authentic African Art!
This type of posters were exhibited many times in museums all over the world and are highly collectible!
Here is a little about the origin of this form of art.
With the arrival of video and video cassettes during 1980's in Ghana (West Africa) a small-scale film distribution mobile Cinema was created.
The local operators were equipped with a television, a video and occasionally with a portable generator. They were moving from place to place showing their films - sometimes inside social clubs or houses and during the night in open air!!!
In order to gather as many spectators as possible they had to advertise their business and they needed huge posters. Because of this a new form of art was born.
Talented artists after viewing the films were creating large size posters using oil paint on canvas, but because of the unavailability and high cost of the imported canvases, the artists were using used flour sacks sewn together.
The artist had the freedom to add and change scenes seen, or not seen, in the movie in order to make the poster more attractive. This is the reason that this hand painted posters are considered more as an ART than the usual posters. Each of them is UNIQUE and except the film content they express the vision of artist himself.
Because of the posters "hard" life ( transported folded or rolled, displayed under the rain and sun for several months during their rounds all over Ghana) most of the posters were destroyed and the surviving ones have damages at the ends of the canvas, peelings, cracking and other signs of wear.
By the mid 1990’s, since television and video were more widely available in Ghana, the popularity of the mobile Cinema business declined and almost collapsed.
The profits of the mobile Cinema operators decreased and they were not able to afford the "expensive" artists to paint their posters anymore.
At the present days they are using photocopy paper posters in order to cut cost and survive.
For more information concerning this type of art please read: "Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Poster from Ghana" with over 350 colorful examples of this unique posters.
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