over the last thirty years, the silver jewelry of the Tuareg has gained increasing recognition in Europe and America as missionaries, aid workers, Peace Corps volunteers, and tourists visited Mali, Niger, and southern Algeria. They often returned with souvenirs and, on occasion, sufficient quantities of jewelry to sell. Tuareg inadan (male smiths) have also occasionally traveled to the West to sell their jewelry and have established commercial relationships with “ethnic” jewelry shops in some Western cities (especially Paris and New York).Tuareg jewelry has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in France, Germany, Belgium, and Spain, such as “Touaregs” at the Musee de l’Homme (1993), “Touareg” at the Musee royal de l’Afrique centrale, Tervuren (1994), and “Tuareg, Nomades del desierto” exhibited at several museums in Spain under the sponsorship of Fundacion “la Ciaxa” (2001). Tuareg jewelry, leather and wood objects, and other pieces such as camel saddles have entered the collections of several museums, such as the Musee d’ethnographie, Neuchatel; Musee du Quai Branly, Paris; Bardo Museum, Algiers; and UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Jewelry has also been the subject of books and articles over the last three decades (Creyaufmuller 1983, Gabus 1982, Gottler 1989, Loughran 1996, Mikelsen 1976, Rasmussen 1997a) and is a significant component of the upcoming exhibition “Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World” (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, October 15, 2006-February 26, 2007; the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, May 30-September 2, 2007; and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, October 10, 2007-January 27, 2008).