Saharan Trails
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pond, Alonzo W. (Alonzo William), 1894-1986
label: Collection Creator
content: Beloit College
label: Collection Creator
content: Pond, Dorothy L.
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content: Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection
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content: Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection / Series 1: Films
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925-1926
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Edited film shot by Bradley Tyrrel, a Beloit graduate student, during the Franco-American Expedition to Algeria which was sponsored jointly by the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, and the Algerian government. Led by Alonzo Pond, Byron Khun de Prorok, and Maurice Reygasse, the expedition traveled from Biskra to Tamanrasset and back in three specially constructed Renault vehicles in October and November of 1925. The expedition excavated both prehistoric and ancient Sahara habitations and observed various Hoggar Tuaregs. Film features excavations of the ancient tombs near Tamanrasset (including the tomb of Queen Tin-Hinan, ancestral mother of the Tuaregs), French colonial outposts, encounters with Tuareg chiefs, a wrestling match, a slave tent, and head shaving in a Tuareg camp.