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Object Number 2004.24.21568
Display Title Arab opening oysters in search of pearls
Descriptions
Subject
  • Headdress
  • Oyster
  • Pearl
  • Man
Department Photographic
Date June 1950
Artist Dr. Henry Field
Culture
  • Bedouin
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / United Arab Emirates / Sharjah
Additional Geographic Terms Trucial coast
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)

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Faunal Remain
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Man in boat shucking oysters
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Shell fragments, including some oysters
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Faunal Remain
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Shell fragments, 3 oysters intact
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Faunal Remain
Harvard Yard
Organic, shell, bivalve, oysters
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Shell
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Shell beads, round and tubular; pearls and pearl beads; one with copper staining
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Bead
Pearl
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Metal, iron fragment, possibly worked, with pearls and pearl beads adhered to the surface
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Pearl
Unidentified
Turner Group; Ohio State Site # 33HA 26
Shell beads, round, discoidal, and hemispherical; pearls and pearl beads; some with copper and iron staining
974-5-10/52612 Shell beads, round, discoidal, and hemispherical; pearls and pearl beads; some with copper and iron staining
Bead
Pearl
Turner Group; Ohio State Site # 33HA 26
Pearls, some perforated
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Pearl
Turner Group?; Ohio State Site # 33HA 26?