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2004.130.130.1

View of a suq (market) in the city of Lawdar in Abyan Governorate. In the foreground people gather around market stalls in an open air market. Square stone buildings surround the market, and in the far background high mountains rise in the distance.

2004.130.130.1

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Collection type
Photograph
Description
View of a suq (market) in the city of Lawdar in Abyan Governorate. In the foreground people gather around market stalls in an open air market. Square stone buildings surround the market, and in the far background high mountains rise in the distance.
Geographical reference
Yemen
Asia > Western Asia > Yemen
Abyan Governorate; Lawdar
Cultural groups
Arab
Person
Photographer Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Expedition or compiler Wilfred Thesiger Yemen 1945
PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date / Period
Date of photograph: 31/09/1945 - 02/10/1945
Acquisition information
Acceptance in Lieu: 03/2004
Dimensions
Image dimension 35 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2004.130.130.1 Previous PRM number: WT.T.4.32 Previous other number: T/4.32
Research and responses

Research Notes - 'I arrived in Aden at the end of September 1945, visited the mountains along the Yemen frontier, and on October 15th flew to Salala, the capital of Dhaufar.' Wilfred Thesiger, pp. 29, Arabian Sands (London, 1959). [AK 26/05/2011]

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