Guh.

I shall come, when my time does, to the crest-top of the Areopagos,

Hunted and pursued as I have hunted and pursued,

But punishment I'll take smiling, for I'll have come on a white horse.

Hejaz; Harb. Saudi Arabia. Scanned from the book Femmes d'Arabie by Thierry Mauger.

They made one [burqa] for me, and when I tried one on, I found it surprisingly comfortable, blocking out the direct sunlight, keeping my face cool, and giving me a sense of security from sandstorms.

Motoko Katakura was a Japanese anthropologist known for her fieldwork among Bedouin communities in Saudi Arabia. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she conducted in-depth research with women of the Harb tribe, documenting aspects of daily life that were rarely accessible to outside researchers.