Wives, sisters and female relatives of pearl-divers greeted the return of ships at the end of the pearling season wearing their best thobes. The exceptionally majestic thuraya thobe, center, is named for its large triangular embroidery motif that signifies the Pleiades constellation that would appear in the September sky and signal the end of the pearling season. It is said that only a pearling boat captain's wife would wear the thuraya thobe.
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