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The museum shows only sourced pieces, with provenance and licence. The featured collection is the earth of Gaoui. A sourced instrument gallery follows; when the shot is not in Chad, the place is given. Clothing, manuscripts and National Museum collections remain empty rooms.

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Cultural object of the month

Kotoko pottery and housing, heirs to the Sao, photographed in Gaoui on 29 October 2026. Provenance and licence are published on each record.

Earth room — documented objects

Two Tchad Ma Culture deposits (Gaoui pottery and houses) and a freely licensed photo of a cast of the Toumaï skull. No object is invented to lengthen the room.

  • Documentary photo : Gaoui pottery

    Cultural object of the month

    Gaoui pottery

    Gaoui, Chari-Baguirmi province

    Kotoko jars and terracotta from Gaoui, near N’Djamena — a living craft linked to Sao memory in the Lake Chad basin.

    Provenance
    Photograph by Florent Mando Yves, Gaoui (Chari-Baguirmi), 29 October 2026.
    Licence
    All rights reserved in the photograph, Tchad Ma Culture (image file entrusted by Florent Mando Yves)

    Credit : Florent Mando Yves (Tchad Ma Culture)

  • Documentary photo : Houses of Gaoui

    Earthen architecture

    Houses of Gaoui

    Gaoui, Chari-Baguirmi province

    Provenance
    Kotoko banco housing. Photo: Florent Mando Yves, 29 October 2026, Tchad Ma Culture deposit.
    Licence
    All rights reserved, Tchad Ma Culture (Florent Mando Yves deposit)

    Credit : Florent Mando Yves (Tchad Ma Culture)

  • Documentary photo : Toumaï skull

    Palaeontology · fossil cast

    Toumaï skull

    Djurab desert, northern Chad · about 7 million years old

    Found in 2001 by the Franco-Chadian Palaeoanthropological Mission and described in Nature in 2002 as Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

    Provenance
    Photograph of a cast of skull TM 266-01-060-1 (University of Toulouse III) by Didier Descouens, 23 June 2010. The original is not photographed here.
    Licence
    CC BY-SA 4.0 — Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons

    Credit : Didier Descouens, moulage de Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Toumaï), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Instruments room — sourced gallery

These photos show the instrument itself. When the shot is not in Chad, the place is given. The kinde of Chadian griots still awaits a National Museum photograph.

Rooms still empty

Traditional clothing, manuscripts, objects from Chad’s National Museum: no free or consented file yet. Offer a deposit via Contribute, with provenance and licence.

  • Traditional clothing and adornment, photographed with consent

  • Manuscripts and documents (letters, archives, prints)

  • Collections of Chad’s National Museum in N’Djamena: no free photograph found yet

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