If everything you owned had to fit on the back of a camel, what would you keep? What instrument would a musician treasure enough to justify taking up precious space? The members of Tartit play the instruments of their Tuaregor Kel Tamashek, as they prefer to be calledheritage. The tinde, played exclusively by women, is made from a small wooden mortar that the women use to grind grains, and which is covered with a goatskin. Only women of the noble or the vassal tribes were once permitted to play the imzad, the small one-stringed gourd-fiddle that is the symbol of Kel Tamashek society. Both instruments are easily disassembled for use in other daily activities. But their most important instrument is also the most portable one of all: the human voice.