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Photo: A Tuareg woman holds family saddlebag key
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Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie
Hands gleaming darkly with the indigo dye that colors her robe, a woman of the Tuareg—wandering Berbers of the Sahara—clasps her traditions close. The incised brass key marks her as guardian of the family's saddlebags.

—From "Algeria: Learning to Live With Independence," August 1973, National Geographic magazine
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