Amarah: Native boats (kufa and mahala) on the Tigris

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/0763.2382
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, a copy negative taken from a photographic print.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Amarah
Dates 1916
Donor/Creator Dundas, R. H.
Scope and Content The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Native boat (Kufa) at Amara. Kufa & Mahala".
Notes Date is listed in the SPHS register. Probably taken when Dundas was stationed in Mesopotamia during WWI. Dundas donated images to the SPHS collection ca. 1919 - JHS 39 (1919) xxl. This image appears in SPHS slide set by B.I. and I.A. Lawrence (ca. 1933) The Expedition of Cyrus & Xenophon's Anabasis, slide number 38.
Reference 1919 JHS 39: 5th accession to 1913 slide catalogue. xlv.SPHS 2382. Link to article