Galilee Bedouin

It is important to note that Galilee Bedouins were overlooked in population estimates and surveys due to their nomadic nature and small numbers.

"Description de L'Egypte" (1812) published a list of Jaubert's statistics of nomadic tribes.

Ghazi Falah notes that: "Jaubert's statistics were in fact estimates of the power of tribes and not population.

Using the number of horsemen in order to estimate the population of a Bedouin tribe is unrealistic, particularly when the information, derived from the tribesmen themselves was exaggerated to demonstrate tribal power.

Burckhardt (1822) who was present at the same time in the east came to similar conclusions when he tried to estimate the Anezeh Tribes: 'It is difficult to ascertain the numbers of each tribe for a prejudice which forbids them to count the horsemen, as they believe, like the eastern merchants, that whoever knows the exact amount of his wealth may soon expect to lose part of it.

"[...] In 1980 the settled Bedouin in the Negev and Galilee formed 12% of Israel's Arab population.

[8] Unlike other Palestinian ensembles, Galilee Bedouin thobes do not have girdles or a cloth belt.

This style of embroidery is said to be similar to village women in South Syria and North Jordan, likely due to Galilee Bedouins having pastured their livestock east of Lake Tiberias.

The jackets usually had some trimming with braided cord on the edges, in colors such as black or an orange-red.

The headscarf could be tied with an asbeh, a stiff headband used to hold their headscarves in place, occasionally decorated with coins on the front.

Sometimes women didn’t wear a headband and wrapped their head scarfs similar to the Taureg people, folded in a crisscross manner over the forehead, occasionally a spare length of fabric was thrown over the shoulder down the back.

Basic stem stitch and zigzag stitch - diamond and triangular shapes.
Woman's jacket with short, raised collar made of indigo dyed cotton.