To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Enclosure where the dates are dried

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?].
Caption on negative: Enclosure where dates are dried (crossed out).
On negative: 1523 (crossed out).
Date from Matson LOT cards.
Photograph taken in Wadi Feiran (Feiran Oasis), where there is an abundant palm grove to supply date fruits for local consumption and inter-tribal trade and sale in the towns on the Gulf of Suez, showing an enclosure made of dry palm leaves to protect the date fruits while drying in direct sunlight in the foreground and Tarfaa trees in the background. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
The traditional Bedouin dwellings and livelihood and tools, e.g. grinding stones, mirrored pre-historic ages post Chalcolithic/Copper Age and the start of Early Bronze Age I (4500-3150 BCE), marking the very end of hunting and gathering around summer desert lakes and the development of tribal chiefdoms and husbandry based economy. Camels replaced feral donkeys in transportation in 2nd millennium BCE, though domesticated donkeys are still used in the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula. The Bedouin inhabitants of South Sinai belong to "El-Tawara Tribal Alliance" between the following tribes - mostly migrated from the Arabian Peninsula and settled in Sinai Peninsula between 10th and 17th centuries CE: Mezena (17th century CE), 'Aliqat (14th century CE), Hamada (pre-Islamic) and Bani Wasel (10th-13th centuries CE), Awlad Sa'aed (14th century CE), Qrarsha (16th century CE) and Sawalha (14th century CE), and Gebaliya (6th century CE), in addition to Mawtra (? century CE) tribe. The Bedouins traditionally followed a seasonal migration cycle until 1980s CE, especially in the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula, herding on pastures at different areas and/or altitudes (and practiced seasonal agriculture), where young women herd goats and boys herd camels. They lived in dark tents (or straw or palm leaves huts in some areas in winter) made/woven of goat/camel wool (Arabic: Beit Sha'ar) which were pitched in a row facing east on open grounds in summer or in the protection of boulders or man-made U-shape stone walls (Arabic: Huweita) acting as a wind-breaker in winter, i.e. temporary campsites. Motor vehicles started replacing camels in Sinai Peninsula in the 1920s and 1930s CE. The oases and the Byzantine (later Bedouin) mountain orchards formed a more more permanent form of settlements since 3rd-4th centuries CE. Bedouins living inland and on coast traded local products, e.g. agriculture such as fruits and dates for dried fish. A Bedouin wife was traditionally responsible (and partially still) for weaving cloth from camel/goat wool for clothing, tent, furniture, etc, bringing water from wells and springs, collecting firewood, grinding seeds, baking, milking camels and goats, making butter and cooking, bringing up children, etc, while a Bedouin husband is responsible for bringing seeds, goats, camels and donkeys and grinding stones, buying clothing and tent furniture, making charcoal, etc. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.