Tin Hinan is the legendary ancestress-queen of the Kel Ahaggar Tuareg, remembered as the woman who journeyed from the Tafilalt oasis of southern Morocco to the Hoggar highlands and became the mother of the noble Kel Rela. Oral tradition, first set down by Charles de Foucauld and later analysed by Henri Lhote and Gabriel Camps, names her maidservant Takama as the companion of her migration and her daughter Kella as the eponym of the ruling lineage. The monumental drystone tomb at Abalessa, opened in 1925-1927, held the richly adorned skeleton of a woman of the fourth or fifth century, which local memory identifies as hers. Sources differ on whether the tomb's occupant is the historical original of the legend or a later noblewoman assimilated to it.