View of traders sitting with ... Frame:black

View of traders sitting with ... Frame:blackView of traders sitting with their merchandise at an open air market in the city of Seiyun. Crowds of buyers and traders fills the square, some of whom are carrying baskets in their hands or on their heads. 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 of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding camels through the Jiddat al Harasis during the party's journey from Boi well to Yisub well

In the foreground a desiccated bush lies in pieces on the side of the dune

so that they can draw the water up

the nakhoda or captain of the dhow on which Wilfred Thesiger travelled from Dubai to Bahrain Island

and snow-capped mountains in the distance

and in the far distance rolling downs stretch out to the horizon

walking with their camels in the hills above Andhur

The boys are wearing garlands of herbs in their hair

Some of the men also wear khanjars (daggers) on cartridge belts over their thobe

View of Maasai man trimming his finger nails whilst having his hair braided and adorned by another man

wearing beaded necklaces and a hat decorated with many rows of shells

and three boys