Souk at Boumalne Type:unstretched canvas

Souk at Boumalne Type:unstretched canvasView of people at the souk (market) at Boumalne. 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.

View over the mud-brick town of Yazd

Further along the aisle people walk through the market

Merchandise is stacked up in piles along both sides of the aisle and a shade canopy hangs above the aisle

with a falcon at a well in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

wearing a bandolier and a dagger in a scabbard across his waist

He wears a dark thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf)

are enclosed by a palm frond fence

In the centre left foreground a man in a waistcoat and thobe (long shirt)

and above the sky is empty of clouds

going to market to buy chickens

and further right beached dhows line the shore in front of buildings in the Shindagha district

In the centre background is a group of square huts (locally known as arish) made of date palm fronds built on to a slight slope