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Marsh Arabs

Rare images from Iraq 1967

Dream-like image of a woman silently punting her slender canoe pre-dawn in the Central Marshes. W8881

Young Marsh Arab women gathering edible plant called 'gat'. They sell them or barter with them in their hamlet. W10128

Water buffaloes resting after foraging in the marshes. This is a typical settlement in the Central Marshes. W8880

Marsh Arab woman punting her elegant 'tarada' - long slender canoe. The typical reed building is called a 'mudhif, a guest house and meeting place'. W5779

Paddling home in a dream-like world at sunset. Sunsets are amazingly colorful in the marshes. W11229

Dreamy beauty of the Iraqi marshes seen through reed hut wall. W5785

A 'tarada' - a special long, slender canoe - glides home past typical reed dwellings. W10121.

Typical Marsh Arab village seen framed by a 'mudhif' - meeting house - under construction. W8680

A typical village scene. Water buffalos were essential to the Marsh Arab way of life providing milk, meat, dung for fire. W8880

Strikingly weather-beaten looks of a man of the Marshes. W5906

Large and busy village of Al Beda in the Eastern Marshes, Lots of reed huts and boat activity. W10111

Typical Marsh Arab boy. Healthy and smiling. W8089

A woman in her canoe with the classical shape of the 'Mudhif', village meeting house, behind. W10090