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Oman's Heritage: Illustrations "The Photography of Nicolas Sapieha"
February 13, 1998

Carpenters work on the wooden hull of a dhow at a shipyard in Sur, a coastal city 210 miles south of Muscat. The advent of fiberglass vessels, which are easier to maintain, has threatened the dhow-building industry here.

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