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NOTES

1. I am grateful to Professor R. B. Serjeant of Cambridge for correcting my
English manuscript and to Professor T. M. Johnstone of London for checking
the Shahn and HarsusT terms collected during my interviews.
2. Dostal, W., ‘Some remarks concerning the BatahTrah, a social inferior tribe
in Southern Arabia’, Archiv fur Volkerkunde, 1960, XV, 7—9.
3. See Serjeant, R. B., ‘Sex, birth, circumcision: some notes from South-west
Arabia’, Hermann von Wissmann - Festchrift, Tubingen, 1962, 203, seq., and
W. Dostal, ‘Zum Problem der Miidchenbeschneidung in Arabien’, Wiener
VdlkerkundlicheMitteilungen, (NF. 1), 1958, VI, 83-89.
4. W. Dostal, Die Beduinen in Siidarabien. Fine ethnologische Studie zur
Entwicklung der Kamelhirtenkultur in Arabien, Wiener Beitriige zur Kulturge-
schichte und Linguistik, 1967, XVI, 72, 143.passim. It is hoped that an English
translation of this work will soon become available.
5. Glaser (ed.), ‘Die Sternkunde der siidarabischen Kabylcn’, Sitzungsberichte
der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Cl. d. k. Akademied. Wissenschaften,
Wien, 1885, XCL, B, II. Abt., 89-99. Cf. p. 89. R. B. Serjeant, ‘Star-Calendars
and an Almanac from South-West Arabia’, Anthropos, 1954, XLIX, 433-59. Cf.
p. 445, note 38; R. B. Serjeant, ‘The Cultivation of Cereals in Mediaeval Yemen’,
Arabian Studies, 1974,1,25-73. Cf. p. 41.
6. Comte C. de Landberg, Etudes sur les dialectes de TArabic Meridionale.
(Vol. 1, ‘Hadramout’), Leiden, 1901, 621. For the production of a sharTm cf.
Dostal, Handwerker und Handwerkstechniken in Tarim, Publikationen zu
wissenschaftlichen Filmen (Sektion Volkerkunde), Erganzungsband 3, 1972, 83.
7. See J. C. Wilkinson, ‘Bayasirah and Bayadir’, Arabian Studies, 1974, I,
75-85.