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...order to embark on such a journey, Field first needed the permission of the Sheikh Falih al-Saihud, the paramount sheikh of a number of tribes in the southeastern part of the al-Hawiza Marsh. His photo is central in the exhibit, portraying the 85-year-old, six foot tall respected leader as an integrative part of the culture of the Ma?...
...exhibit that opened at the Peabody Museum Wednesday offers snapshots not only of a fascinating way of life now gone, but also of a method of racial anthropology just as extinct...
Entitled “Field Photography: The Marsh Arabs of Iraq,” the exhibit offers a unique glimpse into the lives of Iraq’s Marsh Arabs or Ma’dan tribes that until the mid-1980s lived in mud huts on southern Iraq’s rich Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...
...exhibit brings together 34 prints from physical anthropologist Henry Field’s survey of the ancient Near East. It combines these prints with excerpts from Field’s own publications...
Other images highlight women in intricate dress or men in canoes, fishing or making reed mats. Together with landscape shots of the pristine marshland, the exhibit offers a glimpse into the lives of a lost culture...