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touareg, looks like modifiated zinder
Sorry could you explain more what does it mean modifiated zinder!!
zinder cross from niger with some changing. my english is bad. i m trying my best.this is an old piece
Thank you very interesting for me. We took last year a big tour of 28 days off road with a driver through
Morocco, and we bought things from little villages along the road!!
I think this is a Tuareg cross from Timia. Will check with my notes and confirm or not.
I think it is a Timia Cross, not Zinder. Zinder is different. Officially there are 26 Tuareg crosses of the Niger, used in other countries too. This one is called Timia. The Zinder cross is not flat on the low part, but narrow and ends not round like this one. The middler part of this one is a little varied, that is what ait ouakli called "modificated zinder", but it is a modified Timia.
Sorry, I made a mistake, it is not 26, but 21 (no. of Tuareg crosses). But there exist a number of additional ones (e.g. the Mano Dayak cross, etc.), but the official number of Tuareg crosses is 21.