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TYPICAI. TIGRIS RIVER CRAFT (kELI^k) BEARING PASSENGERS FROM DIARBEKR TO 



MOSUL 



"A strange craft at Bagdad is the 'kelek,' a Kurdish invention. The kelek is a raft 

 made of inflated goatskins, held together by poles and covered with a platform of straw 

 mats. These keleks come down to Bagdad in hundreds from Mosul, bringing wool, pottery, 

 grain, and skins" (see text, page 546). 



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