Hilton-Simpson collection.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, current owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hilton-Simpson, M. W. (Melville William), 1881-1938--Photographs.

Hilton-Simpson, M. W.

Hilton-Simpson, M. W. (Melville William), 1881-1938.

Shawiya (Berber people)--Social life and customs--Photographs.

Shawiya (Berber people).

Hausa (African people)--Social life and customs--Photographs.

Hausa (African people).

Hausa (African people)--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Photographs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Production:

[1913-1924]

Contents:

Belayed and Helen Hilton-Simpson prepare a meal, 1922-1923

The market in the Shawia village of Oum el Habel, 1922-1923

Unidentified Shawia woman, probably the cook for the Hilton-Simpson party, 3/4-face squatting; Oum el Habel. Beside her are halfa-grass basket and a pottery dish, 1922-1923

Three Shawia females and a boy on the hillside outside Menaa. In the background are the villagers' tilled fields; one female holds a cane distaff, which is used to spin thread from the wool of the villagers' flocks; a girl carries the harvest or fire-wood on a halfa-grass basket, 1914

Date harvest, 1914

A caravan of camels and Arab nomads, 1922-1923

Unidentified Shawia female carrying a load of fire-wood to her dwelling, 1914

Two double-storied Shawia dwellings, Teniet el Abed, 1922-1923

Hilton-Simpson? looking at women sitting on mat full of some substance

Unidentified Arab male posing in front of a house/building; full face; 3/4 length, 1924

Bled Salawin, South of Metlili Mountain, 1914

Hausa clown el Kantara, 1914

The Shawia village of Oum el Habel from the North North East, 1922-1923

Hilton-Simpson on donkey

M.W. Hilton-Simpson, mounted on a mule, crossing a stream in the El Kantara gorge, 1920-1921

Oum el Habel, with its uncharacteristically double-storied houses, from the North North East, 1922-1923

M.W. Hilton-Simpson on a mule, El Kantara, 1920-1921

Shawia female squats on a rock in a pool by the stream to do her laundry, 1920

M.W. Hilton-Simpson and three Shawia guides with the bag of a day's hunting, near Beni Ferah. They consist of a 'mouflon' (long-horned sheep) and a gazelle, 1920-1921

El Kantara

The bride dances at her house before leaving for her new home, 1920

A coffee party picnic in the grounds of the home of the Kaid of Khanga Sidi Nadji. Dorothy Hilton-Simpson is seated on the right, next to the Kaid, a member of the Bel Hacine Family, 1920

Olive press, 1920

Two Ouled Ziane females engaged in different processes of spinning, 1920

Ouled Ziane female hand-shaping a clay pot, Djemoura, 1920

A sorceress foretelling the future, 1920

An Ouled Ziane female making clay pottery, 1920

Ouled Ziane male by a 'seggia' (irrigation canal) which waters tilled fields in Djemoura, 1920

The male villagers of Menaa listen to music and watch a village dancer during the feast of spring celebrated over three days in late February, 1920

Bedouin encampment south of Metlili Mountain. This consists of a few tents made of cloth spun from a mixture of goats' hair and wool, erected with poles and guy ropes, surrounded by brush fences; the Bedouin flocks graze close to the encampment, 1914

Arab gunmaker's wife; three quarter length; full face, 1914

Bedouin of Metlili

The Hilton-Simpson party halt by a stream between Djemoura and Menaa, 1914

Removing baked pots from open fire with a stick, 1913

Photograph from Hilton-Simpson Collection

Shawia shaping a clay dish; no wheels are used in Shawia pottery, 1914

Unidentified Shawia woman in Ouled Mansour; three quarter length; full face, 1914

The 'marabout' (holy man, hereditary saint) of Tijdad, Ahmed ben Mohammed Boubish, receives his followers, 1920

An Ouled Abdi female weaving tellis (multi-purpose carrying sacks) cloth on a horizontal hand loom in the street, 1914

Hilton-Simpson's 'outfit', 1924

Shawia female, full face, full length, spinning, near Tijdad; she uses a can distaff to spin thread from the wool of the villagers' flocks; two children are with her, 1914

El Kantara, the gorge from the South, 1914

A professional dancer from Wed Abdi in Beni Suig; 3/4 length; full face, 1914

Belayed, the French government orderly who accompanied the Hilton-Simpson party through the Wed Abdy, and his family; full length; full face, 1914

Arab wife of a Negro, El Kantara; standing by a brick wall; full length; full face, 1914

Belkadi ben Hamou, the first Government-appointed orderly assigned to the Hilton-Simpson party; seated; full face, 1912-1920

Beni Ferah from W.S.W, 1914

Map of the Aures Mountains illustrating the route of the existing railway in 1913-1921 and the route taken by the Hilton-Simpson party.

Notes:

Collection no.: HSC.

Online resource.

OCLC:

1090110732

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.