A record of the Ghaws al-Kabir, 1870 – 1936
Names, debts, and pearl counts recorded by the tawwash in columns no wider than a thumb.
Divers, haulers, a nakhuda, and the singer who kept time with the tide.
The hijar pulled each diver to the seabed. Twelve trips below was the measure of a man.
When cultured imports arrived from Kobe, the Ghaws ended in a single generation.