Dogs, Boats, Shells, and Goats: Musings on the Decorations of the Musandam battil

By Roxani Margariti. Many years ago, as an archaeology student in the early 1990s, I had the amazing luck and privilege of participating in a project entitled Traditional Boats of Oman Project and headed by Indian Ocean boatbuilding specialist Tom Vosmer.  Of the many remarkable things I witnessed during the two seasons of working for…… Continue reading Dogs, Boats, Shells, and Goats: Musings on the Decorations of the Musandam battil