Tuareg Girl from the Hoggar Mountains, Algeria
Tuareg Girl from the Hoggar Mountains, Algeria. Taken during the expedition led by Captain Angus Buchanan to the Sahel region of the Sahara in 1922-23. A film shot during the expedition, Crossing the Great Sahara, records the 3500 mile journey, which began in Kano, in Northern Nigeria early in 1922 and ended in Tougourt, Algeria in April 1923. Buchanan had previously led an expedition into the Sahara in 1919-1920
Picture No
10823858
Media ID
45540171
Size
3092px x 5170px
(1.6MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard (4/4)
Date
circa 1922
