Femme des Ouled Nails

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Woman of the Ouled Nail dancers bout to return home.

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"collections ND phot."  on the front, on the back "établissements Photographiques NEURDEIN Frères".

The Algerian Ouled Nail tribe women specialize in dance. Beginning at about age 12, girls leave their mountain homes in the "Monts des Ouled Naïl" to work as dancers, trained by their mothers. After collecting a reasonable dowry, most dancers returned to their hometowns to marry. 

This women has already dance quite a lot observing the jewerelly she wears.  The dancers kept their gold and silver with them, which wasn't without risk. Some girls got robbed and killed. To defend themselved the women wore spiked bracelets.

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