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• Pulley well situated in a wadi may be worked by camel or human labour; the water is drawn in goatskin buckets and stored in wooden troughs for domestic and agricultural purposes. Wadi Hadhramaut. Freya Stark. Seen in the Haudramaut.
• Man repairing irrigation dykes; shallow trenches made by camel-drawn excavator led the spring flood waters into the fields. Hureidha, Hadhramaut. Freya Stark. Seen in the Haudramaut.
• Peasant woman wearing green overdress peculiar to locality; she carries a bundle of millet straw for storage as goat-fodder in nearby hillside-caves. Terim. Hadhramaut. Freya Stark. Seen in the Haudramaut.
• Women wearing divided skirts, bodices and cone-shaped hats, winnow millet in flat basket-work fans. Seiun, Hadhramaut. Freya Stark. Seen in the Haudramaut.
• Headman of Ja'da wearing traditional robes and headgear; he lives in the fortress of Hedbet ash-Sheml?n and controls the tribesmen of this great and well cultivated wadi. Near 'Amd. Freya Stark. Seen in the Haudramaut.