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Vintage-Views Antique Prints and Maps :: Antique Maps :: Africa :: Northwest Africa :: Elisee Reclus Geographical Maps of North West Africa :: SOKNA - JOFRA OASES, Stony Plain, Wadan, Kannassa, Garar

SOKNA - JOFRA OASES, Stony Plain, Wadan, Kannassa, Garar
SOKNA - JOFRA OASES, Stony Plain, Wadan, Kannassa, Garar
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Sawknah (also known as Sokna) is an Eastern Berber language named after the oasis at which it is spoken, in the region of Tripolitania in Libya. The people of Sokna, north of the Jebeles-Suda, have a peculiar Berber dialect which Rohlfs found to be very closely allied to that of Ghadames. The men wear a haik or barakan like those of Tripoli, and a fez; short hose, and a large loose shirt called mansaria, with red or yellow slippers, complete their toilet. Yet one often sees the large blue or white tobe of Bornu, and the lit/lam or shawl-muffler of the Tuareg, wound round the mouth to keep out the blown sand of the desert. The women, who so long as they are young have very plump forms, and who are generally small, are more simply dressed, as a rule, in the barakan, wound round their bodies; they seldom wear shoes, but generally have sandals made of palm leaf. Like the Arab women they load arms and legs with heavy metal rings, which are of silver among the more wealthy. The hair, thickly greased with butter, soon catching the dust which forms a crust over it, is done up in numberless little plaits round the head, in the same fashion as in Bornu and the Hausa countries. Children run about naked until they attain the age of puberty, which comes very early, for mothers of ten or twelve years of age are not uncommon. The Fezzani are of a gay disposition, much given to music and dancing.

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