1 Colophon: Article by Mohamed Saadouni and Taco Meeuwsen, the Netherlands, April 2021 © photos: Taco Meeuwsen (unless stated otherwise) Translated and edited in English by Thomas M. Stricker, director and curator of the Prescott Trading Post & Bead Museum, Prescott, Arizona USA, April 2021 © Design and publication: ErgensinHolland Publishers, the Netherlands, April 2021 © “Sahara Skin” in the lay-out by artist Frans Huisman, 2020 © “Ouled Naïl Revival Ring” (this page - top) by Rabah Ait Ouakli (Algeria, Hamburg) © “Chaoui Chameleon Revival Ring” (back cover - bottom) by Rabah Ait Ouakli (Algeria, Hamburg) With gratitude to Rabah Ait Ouakli (Algeria, Hamburg) for his invaluable inside information © All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the authors, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses as permitted by international copyright law. For permission requests, write to the authors at:
[email protected] • First published in Dutch in the “Sahara Schrift” issue 1-2020, ISBN/EAN: 978-90-824855-9-2 by the Dutch Sahara Society, the Netherlands, affiliated with the University of Leiden, faculty of Berber Studies, the Netherlands. • Scheduled to be published in an abbreviated version in the Dutch “Magazine of Tribal Art and Culture”, of the Association of Tribal Art and Culture in the Netherlands. • Invited to be published in full end 2022 in French, in “Le Saharien”, a Paris-based magazine of the French Saharan Society affiliated with all the major Universities in France.