Endlessly Unfurling, Heavily Decorated, Vintage Hand-tooled Tuareg African Leather Wallet modified photo Carved into the back

Carved into the back

Usually the mends take the form of corners reinforced with metal strips and extra nails

is to me quite a beautiful thing

and the other of a girl offering  treats to a young wanderer

I have found a few other examples of these 1906 souvenirs and each is a bit different

Endlessly Unfurling, Heavily Decorated, Vintage Hand-tooled Tuareg African Leather Wallet modified photo Carved into the backThis hand tooled leather wallet is not all that much to look at when folded up, but open it and it is a gift that just keeps giving, on and on and on and on! Some of the interior decoration, particularly the hand colored passages of geometric patterns, is reminiscent of Plains and Plateau Native American parfleche bags, but I believe this is African, specifically Tuareg culture I think (a large Berber ethnic group, principally inhabiting the Sahara in