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Tuareg Tcherot

Posted by Cordelia Donohoe on December 1, 2015 at 10:14pm

These tcherots or strangely called 'terouts' on the net, were made recently by one of the last old artisans in Agadez who make old style things. His name is Abda Tango

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Eva Baby December 14, 2015 at 12:44pm

beautiful. I read this name "terawt" or "terout" or other way in writing in many books........ is this name incorrect?
Cordelia Donohoe December 14, 2015 at 1:34pm

Well the word is the same but the spelling changes all the time it seems. Tcherot, scheroot. Tscherut. It's spelt differently all the time but essentially it is the word for Prayer box, talisman, gris gris,

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