Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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Coffee pot made from an empty 400 gram net weight tin can that originally held NIDO instant milk powder. A rectangular cut in the side of the yellow and red can, with green, blue, and orange English and Arabic writing, opens into a spout, perhaps fashioned from the lid, that has been soldered on. A yellowish metal from a different can has been bent to form a large loop handle and attached with two nails to the opposite side.
Long white woven textile with border of tightly woven bands of blue and white near each end. At mid-point, a strip of open weaving between another two bands of blue and white.
Vertically rectangular multicoloured print depicting a bow making workshop with walls lined with finished bows. Two men work on long bows inside the shop while one worker attempts to thread his bow while being advised by a well-dressed man sitting on the steps and watched by a passerby leaning on his staff.
Vertically rectangular multicoloured print depicting several carpenters working outside of a shed, measuring, planing and chopping long pieces of wood. A picture of a house leans against a back wall beside a table at which one worker is dozing. A beautiful tree with large green leaves and abundant white flowers hangs over one end of the roof of the shed.
Vertically rectangular multicoloured print depicting a grinder sharpening a sword while a man sitting at his side cleans one to put into the scabbard being handed to him by a woman leaning out from behind the wall. The workshop surrounded by a roofed wall with a gate through which a man is leaving; outside a man is talking to a worker carrying planks of wood.
Vertically rectangular multicoloured print depicting a blacksmith and a labourer working in the open yard beside a large outdoor oven. Both men hold hammers and other tools of the trade hang on the walls. A woman peers over the wall at the back and a bird cage hangs on a side post.
Vertically rectangular multicoloured print depicting two men sitting in the yard of a mat maker workshop, working on mats and barrels, a woman walking out of the house carrying a barrel of water, and a small child clutching the breast of a woman sitting on a bench. Through the open window can be seen a man leaning over a screen, and another child.
Vertically rectangular multicoloured print depicting arrow makers sitting on the porch and in the yard of an open-walled house, each at work at one of the stages of arrow making, from the arrival of the wood to the shaping and painting of the shafts, the shaping of feathers, the tempering of the tips, the drying on racks, through to the boxing of the finished product. Several long spears, tridents and broom hang from the ceiling.
Vertically rectangular multicoloured print depicting the shed and yard of a straw worker, who reclines on his porch surrounded by baskets, mats and the tools of his trade. A woman walks towards him carrying a basket of food and a bucket of water. Vines of ivy wind around the thatched roof and a tree in the background is covered with red flowers.
Vertically rectangular multicoloured print depicting a sword maker's workshop in which four men hammer or carve different parts of swords, one man stokes the coal fire, and a woman gets water for a pot of tea while a young girl clings to her skirt.