Oyster knives, Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain
Knives used to open the oyster shells, used by the captain of the dhow, 20th century, in a temporary exhibition on pearl diving, which has been practised in Bahrain for over 2000 years, in the Bahrain National Museum, designed by Krohn and Hartvig Rasmussen, inaugurated December 1988 by Amir Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, in Manama, Bahrain. The museum houses cultural and archaeological collections covering 6000 years of history, with rooms entitled Burial Mounds, Dilmun, Tylos and Islam, Customs and Traditions, Traditional Trades and Crafts, and Documents and Manuscripts. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13441970
Media ID
45127537
Size
7087px x 4724px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
