sefsar

Updated: May 23, 2025

The men have but a single barracan to cover them, one or two may have a shirt; the children are nearly naked; and the women wear a woollen frock, charms round their necks, armlets, and anclets, sometimes throwing a slight barracan or sefsar round their heads and shoulders. I observed, however, that often women wear great leather boots, made of red leather or camel's skin.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846