Hilton-Simpson, Melville William (MS 74)

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Papers and notes on North Africa. [1906-192-]

21 pts., illus., map. Various sizes

Handwritten and typewritten

Contents:

/1 The cave dwellers of Southern Tunisia

/2 A sandstorm in the Sahara

/3 Wide World, Aures article

/4 Algerian children’s games and toys

/5 Some Algerian superstitions noted among the Shawia Berbers of the Aures Mts and their nomad neighbours (2 copies)

/6 Medical-magical

/7 Medicine among the Berbers of the Aures

/8 Purges & laxatives

/9 Five questions as requested on the talk about ‘The Berbers or hill folk of Barbary’

/10 Written charms

/11 Charms and superstitions

/12 Aures

/13 Shawia festivals

/14 N. African section of a book on big game, written 1921 for Major Barrard

/15 Shawia notes

/16 Four Algerian tales

/17 Some notes on the folklore of the Algerian hills and deserts

/18 Tuareg warfare

/19 Magical remedies in the Aures (2 copies)

/20 Speaking notes for lecture

/21 Illustrations, proofs, etc.

1, Sold 1906 to Travel and Exploration for £5 – 2, Sold to Northern Newspaper Syndicate, Kendal, with 4 photos for £5, summer of 1912 – 3, Dated July 1920, marked Duplicate MS – 9, Incomplete – 16, ‘Sent to Folklore, 3-8-21’; published in Folklore, 1924, 35, 82-6 – 17, Published in Folklore, 1922, 33, 170-99

20, In envelope