Agricultural Life, Grain Harvest, American Colony

2. Wheat field

3. Wheat and tares

4. Arab peasants reaping

5. Arab peasants reaping

6. Reaping barley harvest

7. Reaping harvest

8. Arab peasants reaping

9. Reapers’ repast

10. Reapers’ repast

11. Gathering sheaves

12. Arab family with camel carrying hay bundles

13. Bringing in sheaves

14. Bringing in sheaves

15. Bringing in sheaves

16. Woman threshing with flail

17. Threshing floor activity

18. Threshing with cattle

19. Threshing wheat

20. Muzzled cow used for threshing

21. Threshing with cattle

22. Threshing with cattle at Samaria

23. Threshing sledge with boy

24. Threshing sledge with boy

25. Threshing grain on threshing floor

26. Bedouin threshing floor activity

27. Winnowing grain

28. Winnowing grain on threshing floor

29. Winnowing grain on threshing floor

30. Winnowing grain in Lebanon

31. Peasant winnowing in Field of Boaz

32. Peasant woman sifting grain

33. Peasant woman sifting wheat

34. Sifting wheat

35. Sifting wheat

36. Measuring wheat

37. Measuring wheat

38. This presentation is taken from The American Colony and Eric Matson Collection, Volume 6,
Traditional Life and Customs, which is copyrighted 2009 by Todd Bolen. Permission is given to
use these images freely for personal and educational purposes. Commercial use requires written
permission. For more high-quality, high-resolution photographs and illustrations of biblical sites,
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Other presentations on the Traditional Life and Customs CD include:
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The original source of these images is the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection at the
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