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File XXIII/8 'Travels in Oman. Visit of B. Thomas to the Musandam Peninsula. 1928. Notes on Shihuh dialects & people, also Kumzaris' [5r] (9/68)
The record is made up of 1 file (31 folios). It was created in Mar 1927. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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H© who can visual lee the* mp of jrahia vlll Iso a«aro
of an oxcrosonc© on its oastorn oealoard which Ceotroya
the rectilinear sym* try of the fT«at ^rahiaa peninsula, his
axcreoetico is i-tieadAu* i territory belonging to the CMtt
tanate f it le separate from its suzerain by the- awael^
corridor svhiofc croeoec the base of the peninsula fron Dibah
to nm f aj . Ineignlfloant in also 9 it io but forty five isllee
in ita greateet Xength # aM its average breadth is only half
that difctaact) f It yot prceenta problem f othnolog4.oal a^xl
philological t of great interest to /jrabiete t problem* into
which there has been »m yet,little if any reaearoh.lta
local natse al Jabal tmnalated by "^iloo "Fea&e of
Hcuntaine** could porhapo hare been alternatively and not loss
felicitously translated * mountain Cayee" for here terminates
in a forked ceriec of seagirt heaftlande the great archaean
backbone of (/mn*the Hajar. This ayetn oonDpioueuo farther
south fox' ite isrell defined north and south aatis t^o to three
thousand feet hi^h flanked ^ith coastal plains and threaded
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mi the east '.y dee > wadis and on the west by Cxy
and Btollow tox'rmt beds f here in J^usandam takes on another
character.?ere la a tangled rm&s of meuntaia spur© which
sprawls out clawlike late the sea to divide the Culf of Cma
trow the Persian Oulf: the sea has clewed in east and. west
to the min oeearpnente giving rise to an intricately
tortuomew mwntain ooaat line. -.© an inetane* of the rambling
nature of this coast # at ;: ibi a cove in tie inmrssoet reoeM
of the f ;lphinetOM Inlet the mountain isUmms is only a nil©
and a half wide but to reach its distant side I eteemed
norm hours cir<;?ranaviratixu 7 fifty alios of the deeply
Indented prormtory. : : >irgiiig round this wild rock bound
coast are strong oddle© and conflicting ourrents whose
>rovoeatlo;i la 1 sv •.c.v-/. hy tho :>tc.d vritiauec oi t
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This file contains a document entitled 'The Musandam Peninsula: its people the Shihuh and their dialects' written by Bertram Thomas, Adviser to the Sultan of Muscat.
This document contains Thomas's description of the settlements, traditions and customs of the Shihuh tribe of the Musandam Peninsula which he divides into three groups: 'the interior mountain Baduin [Bedouin]', 'the Kumazara' and 'the Dhuhuriyin'. Thomas practised craniofacial anthropometry and therefore the physical appearance of the Shihuh, notably their skull size/shape, is discussed at length, often in crude, racialised terms.
The document contains an appendix (folios 25-32) titled 'Shihuh Dialects' that focuses on the language used by the Shihuh. This is divided into two sections 'The Mountain Dialect' and 'The Dialect of Kumazara' and is interspersed with handwritten words and phrases in Arabic script.
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- 1 file (31 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 34; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- File XXIII/8 'Travels in Oman. Visit of B. Thomas to the Musandam Peninsula. 1928. Notes on Shihuh dialects & people, also Kumzaris'
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- 5r:31v
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- Thomas, Bertram Sidney
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