Pearl diver's weight and bag, Bahrain National

Stone weight attached to a rope, and behind, net bag to collect oysters, 20th century, used by pearl divers, from 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

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