Tuareg Circular Lidded Leather Box with Incised Design

Blackened and puffy, this round box looks like a very firm cushion.

This circular lidded leather box with an incised design is Tuareg, from West or North Africa, and is contemporary. It is leather & wood. The Tuareg are a Berber-speaking people of the Sahara, and their leatherworkers have long made bags, cushions and containers from tanned goat and sheep skin. Cylindrical container covered in dark gray-black leather with a wrinkled, rounded lid. Short dotted lines and small seed-shaped stamps decorate the top. The sides are plain and slightly scuffed. The edge of the lid is softly rounded. It is 2.5 inches high and 4.25 in diameter.

Stitched, stamped and rather proud of both.