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A glimpse to the Bedouin culture


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Food and Hospitality Animals and Agriculture Hand Crafts People Music and Ceremonies

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Food and Hospitality


	Salem playing host inside the traditional tent Photograph by Munya Haramati



Preparing tea Photograph by Orna Goren



	Roasting coffee beans in tent at the Joe Alon Center Photograph by Ada Roth



Tea pot on the fire Photograph by Joe Alon Center



	Roasting coffee beans Photograph by Orna Goren



Grinding coffee using pestle and mortar Photograph by Orna Goren



	Preparing the dough before baking on a Sadzh Photograph by Tomer Cahana



Empty skin gourds drying in the sun Photograph by Orna Goren



	Milking a goat Photograph by Orna Goren



A Bedouin girl shaking a churn (skin gourd filled with milk). Photograph by Orna Goren



	Preparing cheese Photograph by Orna Goren



Creating the shape of cheese Photograph by Orna Goren



	Cheese balls drying in the sun Photograph by Orna Goren

Animals and Agriculture


	Threshing the wheat using a winnowing fork Photograph by Orna Goren



Threshing the wheat using a winnowing fork Photograph by Nisim Krispel



	Traditional hand-sowing Photograph by Orna Goren



Bedouin wooden plough Photograph by Orna Goren



	Ploughing with a camel Photograph by Orna Goren



Ploughing with a camel Photograph by Orna Goren



	Ploughing with a donkey Photograph by Orna Goren



Ploughed field, woman and camel Photograph by Orna Goren



	Sheperdess drawing water from the well Photograph by Avi Navon



Dates carried on a donkey on the way to the market Photograph by Orna Goren



	A flock of sheep in the Lahav hills Photograph by Orna Goren

Hand Crafts


	Amina teaching how to braid a tray Photograph by Orna Goren



Temple earrings Photograph by Orna Goren



	Amulet to ward-off the evil-eye Photograph by Abraham Chai



"Kirdan" - traditional necklace Photograph by Orna Goren



	Bedouin grindstone Photograph by Orna Goren



Saddle-bags for a donkey Photograph by Abraham Chai



	various pestles and mortars Photograph by Abraham Chai



Jewelry from the Gebalia tribe, Sinai Photograph by Orna Goren



	The beginning of a basket wickerwork Photograph by Abraham Chai



Baskets made of palm fronds Photograph by Abraham Chai



	Sorting wool for sale in the market Photograph by Orna Goren



Ceramic pots in a Sinai market Photograph by Orna Goren



	Spice merchant in the market Photograph by Orna Goren



A coin-veil displayed in the market Photograph by Orna Goren



	Broom made of the Thymelaea Hirsuta plant - "Mitnan" Photograph by Orna Goren



Preparing rope from the peel of the Thymelaea Hirsuta plant - "Mitnan" Photograph by Orna Goren



	A rope made of the Thymelaea Hirsuta plant - "Mitnan" Photograph by Orna Goren



Using metal and a flint to light a fire Photograph by Orna Goren



	Sandles from palm fronds - fishermen of Sinai Photograph by Orna Goren



Making a tray from palm fronds Photograph by Orna Goren



	Pillow for receiving guests Photograph by Abraham Chai



"Bride-Cane" for a Bedouin wedding Photograph by Abraham Chai



	Date picking in Sinai Photograph by Orna Goren



Bedouin sculptor, Sinai Photograph by Micha Bar-am



	Sculpture by the Bedouin sculptor Salem Ch'meyd Udah, Sinai Photograph by Abraham Chai



Ali Hasan El-Asad, Bedouin sculptor from the Negev region Photograph by Orna Goren



	Ceremonial sword (Eretz Yisrael Museum) Photograph by Abraham Chai



Building a "Taboon": foundations Photograph by Orna Goren



	Building a "Taboon": creating the walls Photograph by Orna Goren



Building a "Taboon": finishing touches Photograph by Orna Goren



	A working "Taboon" Photograph by Orna Goren



A summer tent in the Negev region Photograph by Orna Goren



	A winter tent in the Negev region Photograph by Orna Goren



Bedouin encampment - a birds-eye view Photograph by Tomer Cahana



	Hand-made toy from tin leftovers Photograph by Abraham Chai



Bedouin girl playing with an improvised toy Photograph by Orna Goren



	A girl's game Photograph by Orna Goren



"Seedja" - a Bedouin game Photograph by Joe Alon Center



	Silver bracelet Photograph by Abraham Chai



A woman embriodering, north Sinai Photograph by Orna Goren



	Weaving a carpet on a ground loom, south Sinai Photograph by Orna Goren



Quail cage Photograph by Orna Goren

People


	Smoking man Photograph by Orna Goren



Woman with decorated veil Photograph by Orna Goren



	Young shepherdesses from the Gebalya tribe, Sinai Photograph by Orna Goren



Woman with a nose-ring Photograph by Orna Goren



	A Bedouin girl inside the tent Photograph by Orna Goren



Woman wearing a stone amulet Photograph by Orna Goren



	Bedouin girl with a veil Photograph by Orna Goren



Jordan Bedouin shepherd Photograph by Yoel Shtrug



	Kindergarten children from the Bedouin city Rahat, during a visit to the Joe Alon Center Photograph by Orna Goren



Girls from the Gebalya tribe, Sinai Photograph by Shabtay Levi

Music and Ceremonies


	Masbaha - 33 bead count (Also known as "worry beads") These are 33 count prayer beads, used by a number of islamic disciplines. The count signifies the names of Allah.



Prayer Photograph by Orna Goren



	Ud player, Jordan Photograph by Yoel Shtrug



Traditional flutes Photograph by Abraham Chai



	sheikh's tomb Photograph by Yoel Shtrug



Dome of a sheikh's tomb, Sinai Photograph by Joe Alon Center



	Playing on a "samsumiya" Photograph by Orna Goren



Playing on a "Rababa", Negev Photograph by Orna Goren



	Playing on a "Rababa", Negev Photograph by Orna Goren



Playing on a sheperd's flute, Negev Photograph by Orna Goren



	Two "Samsumiya" Photograph by Abraham Chai



Salem playing on a "Rababa" Photograph by Shlomo Besht


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