This article explores the contours of debt and labor in the early twentieth-century Persian Gulf pearl dive. It examines the barwa, a declaration exchanged by nakhodas (dhow captains) about the amounts that divers owed and the terms by which they might be hired out. By looking both through and at the barwa, we find a window into the Indian Ocean maritime bazaar, and into the artifacts through which mobile and itinerant laborers were bound to the dhow and its captain. Maritime actors used these papers to navigate the boundary between person and property, and between free and unfree, all within a changing commercial and legal world.

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潜水员的新论文：波斯湾集市中的财富、人员和财产

本文探讨了 20 世纪初波斯湾珍珠潜水中的债务和劳动力轮廓。它检查了barwa，这是一份由nakhoda s（独桅帆船船长）交换的关于潜水员所欠金额和他们可能被雇用的条款的声明。透过和观察巴瓦，我们找到了一扇窗户，可以看到印度洋的海上集市，也可以看到流动和流动的劳工通过这些手工艺品与单桅三角帆船和船长捆绑在一起。海事参与者使用这些文件在不断变化的商业和法律世界中划清人身与财产、自由与不自由之间的界限。