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Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 9-14884, described as Bag (mazwadah); flour bag in dark and medium brown and white hair and wool in warp face technique; two big loops at each side on top and two plaited cords in same colors and materials. Materials: camel hair, goat hair, sheep wool. Length, not including loops: 66cm. Width: 54cm. Sprayed with DDT in alcohol (10/1978). Context: for keeping flour in when not at home e.g. when a man is travelling by camel, or when a woman is away with goats and sheep. At home, flour is kept in a sack. The four big loops (2 on each side) are for typing the bad e.g. to a camel saddle when travelling. The two threads at the mouth are for closing the opening tightly. This is done by bending it into an S shape first. Used by men and women, made by women. Cost 70USD

Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 9-14885, described as Bowl (gdah - pl. gdahih), carved wood; oblong; handle at one end, pouring spout at other; aluminium and copper reinforcing on rim and underside attached with copper and aluminium nails; Food residue on interior. Made of iθil wood (a kind of tamarisk) Length at top: 37cm. Fumigated and treated with DDT in alcohol (10.1978) Context: bowl for making dough. Also container for gmas, i.e. whatever food one dips one's bread into, or for fattih, i.e. bread crumbled and made into a kind of porridge with some other substance, such as milk. Used when preparing and eating food. Now entirely obsolete, having been replaced by enamelled bowls. This was apparently a standard piece of equipment, which pretty well every family would have had. There were also larger and smaller wooden vessels, which had special names. Cost: 20USD