After a night of celebration

The evening before the Mouloud, tribes from the Aïr and around head towards Sekhiret.

During the night, the Chiefs of respective tribes gather, and riding their camel they form the half of a circle.

Then, until the daybreak, they sing sacred texts in a psalmody. 

Shot: Kodakrome slide, Camera Voigtländer-Zeiss 24/36mm of my Father - low density scan of the damaged original slide.