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IOR/R/15/2/1349
- Record Id:
- 040-000229676
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000228236
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000054
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023442554.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1349
- Title:
- File 10/6 Pearl diving and pearl trade: Correspondence re:
- Scope & Content:
- The file contains a paper entitled 'Vocabulary of diving terms', giving a list of terms for types of divers and persons related to diving, and descriptions of four diving systems; notes on advances and payments; notes on accounts; list of general terms relating to diving; miscellaneous notes on diving; correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire (Lieutenant Colonel Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett), and the American Consul in Baghdad, dated 1929, in which the Resident strongly advises the Consul against an American firm sending a pearl fishing ship to the Persian Gulf, stating that the pearl fisheries had been conducted from time immemorial by the inhabitants of the Gulf coasts, and any interference by outsiders would be strenuously resisted and attended with considerable risk; press cuttings, 1934-1935; and note on levy recruits' diving debts.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000228236
037-000229279
038-000229667
040-000229676 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/2 : Political Agency, Bahrain
IOR/R/15/2/963-1823 : Bahrain Agency, English Office Files
IOR/R/15/2/1341-1364 : File 10: Trade and Commerce
IOR/R/15/2/1349 : File 10/6 Pearl diving and pearl trade: Correspondence re: - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0002]/036-000228236[0008]/037-000229279[0010]/038-000229667[0009]/040-000229676
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (22 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000054
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1929
- End Date:
- 1935
- Date Range:
- 5 Jun 1929-18 Apr 1935
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: The foliation system in use appears in a circle in the top right-hand corner of each folio. There is a second, uncircled, foliation sequence by which some of the folios are numbered (with gaps) 1-8, 18-19, 35-37, and 78-79 (folios 2-21).
Condition: Folio 21 is torn at one corner and some text is missing.
- Former External References:
- English Office files: 10/6
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)