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The Moorish bedouin families of the west of the Sahara experience a very close relationship with their emblematic textile dwelling. The tent shelters the members of the nuclear family and is integrated into a broader residential unit, the encampment. This family space presents a cycle of life modeled on that of the married couple and is in addition submitted to the constraints of mobility imposed by nomadism. It is in fact an ephemeral space, that the mother has the responsibility to reinvent after every removal. Lastly, the exiguous interior space of the tent is deprived of tangible partitions and its occupation is governed by behavioural standards and by a system of cultural values which are specific to this society.