
4 0 c m
30cm
actual image size: 21cm x 32cm
Description
View of a market (suq) in Manama on Bahrain Island. In the foreground a man stands leaning on his knee at a market stall. On the left two men sit at the stall alongside baskets of supplies. Behind them people sit and stand at market stalls that line either side of a thoroughfare shaded by cloths hanging overhead.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Image Details
Accession Number
2004.130.17366.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Bahrain
Region
Bahrain Island; Manama
Cultural Group
Arab
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
May 28 - June 10, 1948
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