Bedouin Woman
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Oman, 1997
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Living in a desert encampment in Oman, this Bedouin woman took great pride in her chador, dyed in indigo and then covered in a gold dust.
Dating from the 6th century B.C. during the rule of Cyrus the Great in Persia, the “chador” is actually a Hindi word meaning “square of cloth.” Maintaining the ideal of female seclusion, chadors of varying degrees are employed through much of the Middle-East, Asia, and parts of the Indian sub-continent.
*(Permission to take this photograph had to be obtained from the woman’s husband.)
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