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clothing and footwear: Africa the Carthaginians used moneybags strapped to their wrists or on a cord around their necks Most Carthaginians dressed modestly, covering most of the body Because the nights were cold, many Carthaginians wore cloaks, and several cloak clasps have been found in Carthaginian graves Many Carthaginians also regularly wore hats, and it seems to have been one feature that differentiated free men from slaves, who were often bare-headed Carthaginian women wore dresses similar to those worn by Greeks, often with heavy embroidery Shoes were similar to those worn by the Greeks, with men wearing leather sandals Carthaginian soldiers dressed in the Greek fashion with a plumed Thracian-style helmet, breastplate, and tunic colored red for officers and purple for men of the noble cavalry In battle Carthaginians wore high open-toed boots Most of the infantry, the men who made up the Carthaginian citizen spearmen, were barefoot in battle The clothing of Numidian and Mauritanian rulers tended to imitate Carthaginian and then Roman clothing Many of the subjects wore simple, short tunics that allowed movement and exposure to the sun The cavalry tended to wear a loose, unbleached singlet, or loose shirt, held at the shoulders with two brooches Some men also wore a strip of leather or wildcat fur around their heads When horsemen were riding, the lower part of the tunic was pulled up, leaving most of the legs exposed They did not use footwear It seems likely that these fashions were also followed in Cyrenaica, in modern-day Libya The Libyans who fought in the Carthaginian army tended to wear very short tunics made of soft red leather, later called Morocco leather Many images of Simon of Cyrene show a black man wearing long, loose-fitting robes helping Jesus on the day of the Crucifixion According to the Greek historian Herodotus (ca 484–430/420 b.c.e.), some women in Libya wore a bronze ring on each leg, while others wore leather bands around their ankles In the Sahara loose tunics similar to those worn by Carthaginians seem to have been favored by the merchants who followed the ancient trade routes through central Africa Even the Romans in North Africa wore a hooded woolen garment known as a birrus, similar to the burnoose, a one-piece hooded cloak worn by Arabs Most of the people crossing the Sahara, men and women, wore headscarves and possibly dyed their robes bright colors, making their dress little different from that of the Tuareg people of modern-day West Africa People in the desert often wore a cloth over the face, giving them the nickname “men of the blue veil.” Excavations of graves at the monument to the early Tuareg leader Tin Hinan show that Morocco leather was used in clothing Herodotus describes a competition in Ethiopia involving the stringing of a bow, at the end of which a scarlet robe is awarded, indicating that the color was unusual in the area at the time At Meroë, in Sudan, small fragments of textiles dating from the ancient period are cotton, showing the importance of this material in clothing of the region 273 Farther south, in modern-day East Africa, there are no surviving descriptions of ancient clothing Diogenes (ca 320 b.c.e.), whom the geographer Ptolemy (fl second century c.e.) suggests visited modern-day Kenya, makes no mention of clothing or lack of clothing of the local people The dress may have been little different from that in Nubia at the time and probably was similar to the cotton garment worn by traditional Masai today These cloths were often brightly colored and worn over one shoulder, leaving the other parts of the body bare Few of these peoples would have worn shoes, though it is possible that some people might have worn sandals imported from other regions It also seems probable that the dress of the Bantu of southern Africa and of tribes such as the Khoikhoi and the San would have changed little from ancient times to the early 20th century In Madagascar, though most clothing was made from cotton, wool was worn in the south, and silk, obtained from Asia, was worn in the northeast Petroglyph of a human figure wearing a loincloth, from the Sahara Desert at Tassili, Algeria, North Africa (© Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Photographer: Jeanne Tabachnick)
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