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The confederation and its sections · Khoms 3

Khoms of the Aït Isfoul and Aït Alouane

Partly documentedآيت إيسفول - آيت علوان

Third khoms of Spillmann's table. The Aït Isfoul, the youngest of the great tribes and still united around a common sheikh around 1930, protect the Aït Alouane, who could not have held on without them. Their centre of gravity is the Ktaoua, in the Draa, a land of recent conquest.

Assisted translation, not validated

Historical landmarks

  1. Around 1936

    In the Oussikis, Aït Ouahlim, Aït Isfoul, Aït Yazza and Aït Ounebgui are now called “Aït Oussikis”: according to Spillmann, the memory of their origins fades and the old hostilities between their parent tribes soften.

    Spillmann (1936), p. 101

Classifications according to the sources

  • Table of the five khmas, situation at the end of 1930.Spillmann (2007), trad. p. 61 (orig. p. 74)
  • “Aït-Isfoul — Aït-Alouane”, about 1,100 hearths in 1936.Spillmann (1936), p. 97

Images and documents

Images linked to this component through a place or a person connected with it: they do not necessarily depict it.

Historical photographDrawing water at Tagounite, Drâa valley (1955)1955Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen (Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam)Probable attribution— Identification based on a published or institutional source, without independent confirmation.
Historical photographTomb traditionally attributed to Dadda Atta, at Taqqat n-Iliktawn (Tagounite)Non datéePublication d'origine non retrouvée (légende dans la graphie de D. M. Hart) ; fichier fourni par le titulaire du projetProbable attribution— Identification based on a published or institutional source, without independent confirmation.
Contemporary photographBuilding presented as the tomb of Dadda Atta (recent photograph)Non datée (photographie récente)Fichier fourni par le titulaire du projet (« Dada Atta tomb.jpg », enregistré depuis un service Google)Uncertain attribution— Provenance, date or subject not established: read with the reservations in the record.
Contemporary photographFunerary enclosure presented as Dadda Atta's mausoleumNon datée (photographie récente)Fichier fourni par le titulaire du projet (« ضريح دادا عطا.jpeg »)Uncertain attribution— Provenance, date or subject not established: read with the reservations in the record.

To be documentedThe sources consulted say nothing yet about: named figures ; relations with other groups.

Sources — 1 sources cited · 1 independent documentary line(s)

  1. Spillmann et al., 2007 — trad. p. 70-73 (orig. p. 85-89)Excerpts consulted · Colonial military