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Algerie - Tassili-n'Ajjer - Col du Tafilalet - Troisième aqba (aqba : montée) en se dirigeant vers Tamrit. Femme longiligne peinte à l'ocre rouge et dont les bras sont plus foncés. Un pan de son pagne pend entre ses jambes. Elle est dans la position de départ particulière au «sprint». Elle mesure, des mains aux pieds : 0,60 m.

From Djanet, two passes lead over the rock face that forms the western edge of the Tassili n'Ajjer to the summit plateau: the Tafilalet pass (photo), which leads in three successive steps (Akba) to the village of Tamrit, and the more direct and steeper Aroum pass, which leads to Jabbaren. - Algeria - 1962

After crossing the Tafilalet pass, the trail descends again through a gorge to Tamrit. - Algeria - 1966

The desert is only flat to those who have not crossed it. Sure, there are huge regs littered with pebbles blackened by the sun, but almost everywhere the rock seems hard, rough, often impassable. And nothing is more astonishing than the range of colours it offers us, like the deep blue discovered at the top of the Tafilalet in the Tassili n'Ajjer, Algerian Sahara. But it is a worn, shattered rock. - Algeria - 1969

In order to reach Djanet on the Tamrit high plateau (Tassili n´Ajjer), one must overcome – on foot or by camel – three steep, rocky paths known as akbas, one after the other. - Algeria - 1962

Somewhere in the Tassili, a Targui returns home; and nothing in his posture, nothing in his surroundings, nothing in his clothes yet makes us think that the mineral resources of the Sahara will one day turn him into a man of the distant 21st century. And yet ... ! - Algeria - 1962

At the Tafilalet Pass - Third Akba (Akba: ascent) on the way to Tamrit. Elongated woman painted in red ochre with darker arms. Part of her loincloth hangs between her legs. She is in the special starting position for the "sprint". She is 0.60 m tall from her hands to her feet.
Algeria - Tassili n'Ajjer - 1993