Beloit African Expedition
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: 1925-1928
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film footage and outtakes shot on the 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928 Logan Sahara expeditions led by Alonzo Pond for the Logan Museum in cooperation with M. Maurice Reygasse, Administrator of Tebessa, to conduct surveys and undertake archaeological excavations of mid-Aurignacian sites in northeastern Algeria. Scenes of ethnographic and archaeological interest include: Arabs at Ali Basha engaged in various domestic and subsistence activities; large crowds gathered at Bougie (Bejaïa) in front of the mosque praying at the close of Ramadan; archaeological excavations at Mechta el Arbi and, possibly, Tebessa, with workers digging and sifting sand; and Dr. George Collie, director of the Logan Museum, examining the sites. There is some film footage of Pond and Collie with their families visiting European potential and working archaeological sites including Wisternitz, Moravia, and Rocher de la Peine and Tuc d'Audoubert cave, France. Film footage also includes market scenes in Toudja and Chateaudun du Rhumel, and countryside scenes around Toudja.