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Pearl diver's net bag, Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain

Net bag used to collect oysters, made from wood, metal clips, thread and rope, 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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Image Size: 7087x4724 / 4.0MB; www.manuelcohen.com; 1988 2018 20th century Arabian Gulf artefact artifact bag Bahrain Bahrain National Museum Bahraini Bahrein collection color image colour image display equipment exhibition Gulf Gulf State horizontal indoors inside interior island Kingdom of Bahrain Krohn and Hartvig Rasmussen La Route de la Perle Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn Manama Middle East Middle Eastern museum National Museum of Bahrain net object pearl diver pearl diving Pearl Route Pearl Trail Pearling Path Persian Gulf rope trade
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Net bag used to collect oysters, made from wood, metal clips, thread and rope, 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