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Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ochsenschlager, Edward L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, [2004]
Subjects:
Ethnology > Tigris-Euphrates Delta (Iraq and Iran)
Material culture > Tigris-Euphrates Delta (Iraq and Iran)
Marshes > Iraq.
Baṣrah (Iraq : Province) > Antiquities.
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.