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Veiled Bedouin, Oman, 1995

"Veiled to all but her immediate family, a Bedouin woman pauses in her tent near the old inland capital of Nizwa. Bedouin females don the distinctive Omani burqa, or mask, after reaching puberty."

—From "Oman," May 1995, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by James L. Stanfield