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The People of Palestine

ILLUSTRATIONS

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A Siloam Woman, Her Infant on Her Back and Produce on Her Head Frontispiece

River Auja of Jaffa 20

Donkey at the Threshing Floor With a Load of Wheat 28

Wild Anemones From Wady El-Kelb 32

A Vineyard at Râm Allâh 36

Râm Allâh Man and a Basket of Olives 38

Stretch of Olive Trees on Road to Ayn Sînyâ 38

A Bedawy House 42

Bedawy Drinking 42

Peasants on Way to Market With Produce 44

Bedawin Horseman 44

Woman’s Work 48

Bringing Home the Bridal Trousseau 54

Girls at Play Carrying Headloads of Grass in Imitation of the Women 54

Washing a Child 58

A Swaddled Infant 58

Three Kinds of Houses—Mud, Dry-Stone, Stone-and-Mortar 68

Household Utensils 76

Bread-Making Utensils 82

In a Dooryard. Women Cleaning Wheat 94

On Top of an Oven. Women Sifting Wheat 94

Pottery 114

On the Way to Jerusalem. For the Neby Musa Procession 126

A Neby Musa Contingent Arriving Within the Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem 126

Farming Implements 130

A Sower 132

Children Gleaning 132

Threshing 140

A Threshing Scene in the Old Pool at Bethel 140

1. Hand Spinning 2. Reeling 3. Straightening Threads For Loom 142

Various Articles Made of Skin: Bottles, Bags, Pouches and Buckets 150

A Market Scene: Peasantry Near David’s Tower, Jerusalem 154

Women at the Spring 164

Fountain at Nazareth 164

A House-Roofing Bee (Et Tayyibeh) 172

A Râm Allâh Matron at Her own door 187

Camel Carrying a Rope Net Filled With Clay Jars 194

Râm Allâh, as Entered by the Sinuous, Walled Lane From the East 194

Little Girls of the Village 196

The Village of Râm Allâh and Outlying Vineyards 204

El-Bireh (From the South) 212

Vineyards and Stone Watch Towers 220

Peasant Plowing 220

Primitive Rug Weaving (Bedawin) 230

Straw Mat and Basket Making: Jifna Woman 230

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