Kuwait Heritage 2
The Banquet
The guests got their dinner or supper at
such banquet. The food usually consisted
of rice, meat and other things.
In the Morning
The painting views the ways of the people
in the past at sun rise. You can see the
builder, the water carrier, the crowd at
the bakery, the woman-seller of the Bajilla
(horse-beans) who sat with her pot near the
minaret of the mosque.
The Year of Rations
During World War II, the government
assigned in every district shops to sell rice,
tea, sugar, flour and cloth to the people at
a low price. The painting shows a shop at
Mubarak arena where the clerk's name was
Badir Al-Mudeer and the weighter was
Abduljadir Bu Yaseen.
Dayrufat Al-Fireej (the seesaw at the district)
In most districts, some people set up their
seesaws in the week of the lesser Bairam.
The small boys and small girls enjoy
them and sang the songs which expressed
their happiness and enjoyment
Yakhoor Al-Shawi (The Stable of the shepherd)
In the past the people entrusted their sheep
to a shepherd who received them in the
morning and went to the nearby pastures for
grazing and brought them back to their
owners in the evening.
Having Bashtakhta (Gramophone)
In the 1930s and 1940s, some people who
were fond of music had or rented a
gramophone with its records. They listened
to different songs which were dominant at
that time. They invited their relatives and
neighbours to listen to them together. They
learned those songs by heart and reiterated
them in their daily life for enjoyment and
entertainment.
Al Dakhtar Al-Sharji (The Eastern Clinic) 2
It was a centre for free medical treatment
similar to a clinic. It had a British doctor who
was sent by his government to treat the
people of Kuwait. Its last location was to the
north of Sabah Al-Nasser masgaf
Al-Mihassin (the Barber)
It is the old barber with his primitive yet
strange fan seen here suspended from the
ceiling.
The House of Umm (mother) Al-Sheikh
It was a famous house in the area, next to
the mosque of Ibn Hamdan (currently the
stock market) where the late Sheikh
Abdullah al-Khalifa Al-Sabah and his family
dwelt in