Haha (tribe)

The Haha or Iḥaḥan (in Shilha) (Arabic: حاحا, romanized: Ḥāḥā) is a Moroccan confederation of Masmouda Berber tribes in the Western High Atlas in Morocco.

[2] Their region stretches along from the city of Essaouira south to the Souss Valley, mainly on the Atlantic coast.

It is well populated and full of goats and donkeys, but fewer sheep, cattle and horses; little fruit grows there, not because the land is poor, but because the people are ignorant, for I have seen many places where grapes, figs and peaches flourish.

They grow little wheat but large amounts of barley and millet, along with honey, which they eat without knowing to keep the wax too.

There are many thorny trees that produce fruit somewhat like Spanish olives, which they call argan in their language, and from which they make a stinking, foul oil, used for food and fuel.In the 1939 census, they had a population of 84,000 people and had 20 Jews among them.