Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden /

Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden /

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Main Author: Ochsenschlager, Edward L. (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004.

Edition: First edition.

Subjects:

Ethnology > Tigris-Euphrates Delta (Iraq and Iran)
Material culture > Tigris-Euphrates Delta (Iraq and Iran)
Marshes > Iraq.
Marsh Arabs.
Baṣrah (Iraq : Province) > Antiquities.

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Call Number: DS70.8.A1 O29 2004

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Table of Contents:
  • In the Garden of Eden
  • The people of Al-Hiba
  • Ways and means
  • Mud household utensils and storage containers
  • Mud musical instruments, toys, jewelry, and ammunition
  • Mud architecture and ancillary structures
  • Baked pottery
  • Mats, baskets, and other objects made of reeds and rushes
  • Reed architecture
  • Wood, boats, and bitumen
  • Bovine husbandry
  • Sheep
  • Village weavers
  • The photographs of John Henry Haynes
  • Death under glass.