Gallery

Berber

The term 'berber' refers to various groups of people living across several countries in Northern Africa. It dates back to antiquity and appears in Arabic manuscripts by 900 AD. Many people, however, believe it to be a European invention related to the term ‘barbarian’. While the term is still used by many people who self-identify as Berber, it is rapidly falling out of favour and more and more people prefer to refer to themselves as ‘Amazigh.’

Deutsche Fotothek

Barbarus (Berber). Illustration from the sketchbook “Nationes,” cover color; 18.4 x 12 cm, 1601/1700

Deutsche Fotothek

made of paper, transverse

Deutsche Fotothek

Decorated women in traditional clothing on the Berber marriage market in the Hohe Atlas near Ksar Agdim.; made of paper, transverse

Deutsche Fotothek

Portrait of a Berber woman with jewelry.; made of paper, transverse

Tartu Art Museum
Shoes or no shoes

Silk embroidered leather upper. Leather soles.

Rippl-Rónai Municipal Museum with County Scope - Kaposvár
Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation
TV3 Catalan Television

The Imilchil Berber tribes living scattered in the Atlas mountains meet once a year. It is the only occasion in which they can fix weddings, exchange products, buy cattle, etc. For a few days, the activity is focused on negotiating and the festival ends i…

Postal Cabinet Museum of Barcelona (Marull’s Collection)

Història de l'objecte: Tipus de segell de correu aeri emès per a recaptar fons en benefici dels afectats per les inundacions i la sequera al protectorat francès del Marroc.; Material/Tècnica: paper / impressió (dentat)

Rippl-Rónai Municipal Museum with County Scope - Kaposvár
Art Museum of Estonia
Philharmonie de Paris

Plage 1 / traditionnel; ensemble Fatima Taba'mrant Plage 2 / traditionnel; ensemble Fatima Taba'mrant Plage 3 / traditionnel; ensemble Fatima Taba'mrant Plage 4 / traditionnel; ensemble Fatima Taba'mrant Plage 5 / traditionnel; ensemble F…

Girona City Council

Portrait of a Berber child before a fortification used during the Rif War.

Museon-Omniversum

Amulet, sjuatta, van gevlochten korenaren met een rechthoekige bovenzijde. De sjuatta wordt opgehangen aan de wand ter bevordering van de harmonie (zina). Tevens beschermt zij het gezin tegen mogelijke kwade invloeden en verzekert de huigenoten overvloed.

Ethnological Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Eine Handtrommel, bemalt. Form: vasenförmig Farbe:blau, rot, gelb Muster: Fische

Deutsche Fotothek

DFG project: worldviews (2015-2017), record author: Deutsche Fotothek/SLUB Dresden (DF)

Museon-Omniversum

Ring van zilverlegering met grote granules rondom een zonvormig motief. Onder op de ring een Arabische inscriptie met de naam "Achmed Salem".

National Museum of World Cultures Foundation

Leather bag with various geometric motifs, including circles, triangles and diamond motifs. These bags were exclusively worn by men, especially in the countryside, but also in the city. The bag was part of the daily clothing of men in Morocco and was almo…

Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

Steel double-edged blade Jambiya with short back and a median ridge in the curved blade. Ricasso. Bolster of brass covered with silver on one side and slightly decorated with floral designs. The hilt is slim, of black wood with three grooves in the centre…

Girona City Council

Portrait of two Berber girls. In the background, one of the Spanish camps during the Rif War.

National Audiovisual Institute France