Two women cutting grass with sickles, Asif n-Wirġan below Taġiġašt, Asif Mllull region, Morocco : Photograph by Wolfgang Kraus

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Title (eng)

Two women cutting grass with sickles, Asif n-Wirġan below Taġiġašt, Asif Mllull region, Morocco

Photograph by Wolfgang Kraus

Photographer

Wolfgang Kraus

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Researcher

Wolfgang Kraus

Description (eng)

The women are mowing the unploughed ridges between fields and along irrigation channels to produce hay which serves as winter fodder for cows and small livestock. Photograph taken July 10, 1985 during ethnographic fieldwork in the central High Atlas mountains in Morocco.

Remark (deu)

eda – Ethnographisches Datenarchiv/UB Wien
eda – Ethnographic Data Archive/Vienna University Library

Remark (eng)

Related objects: o:990485 (Transcription guide); o:1065750 (Context data)

Digitization note (eng)

Digitized by Wolfgang Kraus: negative copied with Pentax K-1 camera (Grey gamma 2.2, 16bpc)

Keywords (ber)

ImaziġnImazighenAyt ḤdidduAyt Iԑzza

Keywords (eng)

BerberAgricultureAnimal husbandryIrrigationWork

Subject (eng)

Ayt Ḥdiddu