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Sinai. Hill of Aaron (Golden Calf). American Colony, Jerusalem

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Sinai. Hill of Aaron (Golden Calf). American Colony, Jerusalem

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Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914.
Photograph taken from the outlet of Wadi El Dier (Biblical Holy Valley) at the junction with Wadi El Sheikh, looking northeast and showing hill of Nabi Harun and the Bedouin cemetery in the foreground, the upstream vicinity of Wadi El Sheikh (behind the hill), the summit of Ras Abu Zeituna to the left, and the 'Arribeh slope of Gebel El Dier to the right, from a 1.5km distance. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Naqret El Baqara (the site of Biblical Golden Calf) is located on this side of the hill. There are Nabatean structures at the foot of the hill (1st century CE). The feast of Nabi Harun is celebrated every summer by the Gebaliya tribe, where there are other shrines among the Bedouin cemetery: Mansiyya, Nahama, Ahmed and Saleh. A mountain chapel was built next to the circular Bedouin shrine on the top of the hill in 1911 CE by the monks of Saint Catherine Monastery, suggesting the phonograph was taken before that year. The boulders on the ground act as tomb stones, while they are unmarked but who is who is well-identified by the Bedouins. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection is a source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present-day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the Library of Congress collection consists of over 23,000 glass and film photographic negatives and transparencies created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. The American Colony Photo Department in Jerusalem was one of several photo services operating in the Middle East before 1900. Catering primarily to the tourist trade, the American Colony and its competitors photographed holy sites, often including costumed actors recreating Biblical scenes. The firm’s photographers were residents of Palestine with knowledge of the land and people that gave them an advantage and made their coverage intimate and comprehensive. They documented Middle East culture, history, and political events from before World War I through the collapse of Ottoman rule, the British Mandate period, World War II, and the emergence of the State of Israel. The Matson Collection also includes images of people and locations in present-day Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. Additionally, the firm produced photographs from an East African trip. The collection came to the Library of Congress between 1966 and 1981, through a series of gifts made by Eric Matson and his beneficiary, the Home for the Aged of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Los Angeles (now called the Kensington Episcopal Home).

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