Salt Flats Niger, 1970s - Film 98854

Amateur home movie of Trans Sahara expedition by tourists in 1971 through Algeria and Republic of Niger, North Africa.
The group have stopped by a well in Niger, Africa.
Local child with pack donkeys laden with the contents of their Berber or Tuareg camp. A woman rides an ass and other children are with her. Wide view of the landscape pockmarked with shallow hollows in the rock, all perfectly circular. Local Berbers walk amongst the circular pits to produce salt from the evaporating waters. Teguiddan Tessoumt Salt Flats. Black women and children stop for the camera. They all have large bowls of earth carried on their heads. A child collects water from a well and fills a bucket for his goat herd. He is wearing nothing other than a sack cloth wrapped around his shoulders.