A marriage contract: contract on wood from the Atlas Mountains
Manuscript contract (arra) on argan wood.
Inscribed argan wood cylinder, ca. 270 mm in length, 50 mm in diameter. Brown Maghribi script, ink on wood.
€ 850.00
A legal document written in Arabic by a member of the Berber tribes of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, on a debarked and smoothed piece of a branch of Argania spinosa, a tree endemic to southwest Morocco. Similar pieces are held in the collections of various universities and museums.
This manuscript is a marriage contract. The bride is a woman named Khadija, and the groom is a man named Sa'id. The contract goes on to mention Khadija's dowry, and is dated to the latter half of the 19th century.
Faded French colonial administration stamp "Service des affaires indigènes - Contrôle des actes". A few lines difficult to read, otherwise in good condition and legible.
Cf. H. Elbahraoui / I. Kliakhandler, "Discovery of a vast corpus of Berber arraten documents", Journal of North African Studies 29.6 (2024), pp. 1052-1073.
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