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This website moves to inspire you to travel off the beaten path on a journey of your own... an exploration, a letting go, freeing up, paying attention to one's own soulsource from where ever it doth come.... and I assure you it arises from your very birth, your inner knowing, your passion to do and become what you have always known yourself to be.
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THE WEST AFRICAN SAVANNAH stretches from the Atlantic coast of Senegal to the shores of Lake Chad. This land of scrub and grass plains is
the home of traders, herders and nomads who roam with their cattle and camels in search of pasture.
Here in this vast area of the savannah south of the Sahara in two countries known as Mali and Niger also live some
of the finest silver artisans, textile makers and leather workers. Interwoven throughout this artisan and
ethnic reality lies a deep vein of oral and musical traditions, instruments, singers and performers.
AFRICA NOMAD trades in hand-crafted, hand-etched, pure silver adornment. I have been traveling to West Africa for more than
15 years and 8 of those to live and hand-work pure silver with the Tuareg silversmiths of Northern Niger. Many of the pieces that I offer
here closely follow the traditional forms and hand-etched designs of these Sahara Berber people. Other pieces are a collaboration of this
desert tradition and my own sensibilities.
Through the hands of an artist and the feet of a traveler, I am a woman journeying for tribal freedom into the depths of my own soulsource.
