Portrait of a young man ... Size:medium

Portrait of a young man ... Size:mediumPortrait of a young man and a boy in the town of Umm al Khashab. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

In the foreground Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions are unloading their camels

A boy wearing a wraparound skirt sits facing towards the near left foreground

Portrait of Sheikh Salim bin Tamtaim of the Beit Kathir tribe

Portrait of male Zulu at Laduma's kraal

with a round stone watch-tower in the distance

It is built in the traditional style for this region from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

who are to be circumcised

taken from near the top of the Kachi Kuni Pass

and further beyond trees grow in the far background

In the background a large rock escarpment rises behind the buildings

taken from the Masjid-i Jami mosque ('Friday Mosque')

The man wears a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped around his head and a thobe (long shirt) cinched with a belt