The cave dwellers of Southern Tunisia

A Danish traveller records a research-focused expedition across southern Tunisia undertaken to acquire ethnographic objects for a museum. The narrative follows journeys through coastal towns, oases, plains and the Matmata mountains, offering practical route descriptions and encounters with local officials who facilitated travel. Detailed observations describe cave-dwelling households, agricultural practices, tribal groupings, bridal festivities, and interactions with Tuareg and other groups. The account combines letters, sketches, maps, and photographs to illustrate landscape, settlements, costumes, and domestic interiors, and concludes with synoptic notes on regional tribes and women's dress.