An old Bedouin of the Mzeina tribe on the south-eastern Sinai Peninsula near Nueiba (Egypt, at that time under Israeli occupation).
(November 1975)
(Foto scanned from slide: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Beduinen, #Beduins, #Nuweiba, #Sinai, #Ägypten, #Egypt, #Ägypten

in the 2nd version, the object was found 1st by local #palestinian #beduins -
they, not the europeans, assigned a certain significance to the object that inspired offering it to a local #museum.

i wonder whether that significance has something to do with operations we call
#art
and other people might call something else - or not call at all, yet experience similar clusters we associate with art, #kunst and some such