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Framed in the traditional indigo hue of the seminomadic Tuareg people, Tanelher Bailah makes up her face with powdered stone from Niger’s Aïr mountains.

Text from “Journey to the Heart of the Sahara” (National Geographic magazine, March 1999).

Photograph by George Steinmetz




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