The barn

Catalogue of the Oasis Museum, halls 13 & 14:

The barn

The harvests of grains are stored in barns to keep them safe throughout the year and to prevent someone from stealing them.

Inside ksars, there is a little barn in each house.

In some villages which have no walls, a fortified community barn gives security to the families who live there. Sometimes this building is placed under the symbolic protection of a shrine.

Nomad tribes had also long ago hidden barns on top of some gullies in the Great Atlas Mountains.

Oasis Museum, El Khorbat
Barn of Ighrem n’Ougoudal Photo: Roger Mimó, 1998.

Oasis Museum, El Khorbat
Barn with shrine in Tazentout (Ouarzazate) Photo: Roger Mimó, 1998.

Oasis Museum, El Khorbat
Gully barn of Ighrem n’Ouchtine, Assif Melloul (Gran Atlas) Photo: Roger Mimó, 1992

Oasis Museum, El Khorbat
Gully barn of Aoujgal (Gran Atlas) Photo: Roger Mimó, 1991

Thuya wood door of a barn
Origin: Ighrem n’Ouchtine (Assif Melloul). Ref. 489.

Oasis Museum, El Khorbat
Home’s barn This barn was a room in the house occupied now by the Oasis Museum

Detail of the objects that are into the barn:

Sorters to separate grain from straw

Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 490/491.

Containers for transport of grain:

Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 492.

Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 493.

Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 494.

Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 495.

Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 496/497.

Origin: Ferkla, 20^th century. Ref. 498 a 501.

Documents found in the barn of Agadir Tizza n’Ikhoulan (Anti-Atlas), given by Marokko Erfahren:

LOUH: documents wrote on wood Beginning of 20^th century. Ref. 1023 to 1053.

Documents wrote on paper Beginning of 20^th century. Ref. 999 to 1022.

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