Word: berbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present series, the first picture was made among the interesting Berber peoples in Northern Africa. Going abroad, Haeseler met Captain M.W. Hilton-Simpson who was on the point of starting out on an expedition into the Aures Massifs in the north of Africa...
During a recent trip to Africa, Mr. Haeseler directed two films, each of which presents a comprehensive survey of tribes on that continent. The first, "Berber Tribes of North America", was made in connection with an expedition from the School of Anthropology of Oxford University. The film shows the primitive water-clock, by which these people measure time. The film "Bedouins of the Sahara", shows the life of the nomads both in camp and oasis...
While the four French prisoners captured by Berber bandits last month (TIME, Oct. 31) languished in unknown circumstances, a French emissary and a tribal chieftain, one Sheik Ben Naceur, bargained last week for their ransom...
...probabilities are that the Sheik was instructed to ask for a sum far in excess of $60,000, for the Berber tribes are shrewd and well know the value of their prisoners, two of whom are related to M. Theodore Steeg, French Resident General. The French, on the other hand, will never let it be known how much they pay for ransom, for their prestige is at stake, and prestige in Morocco is all important...
Tired of fighting the Spaniards, Abd-el-Krim, able, active, alert leader of the Riff Berber tribes, began an onslaught on the French on the south side of that strip of territory over which the Spaniards claim sovereignty and Abd-el-Krim exercises...