Yam girls Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Yam girls Images of Wilfred ThesigerPortrait of two girls, standing. 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.

near Al Qabil

The man holds a large peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on one hand

In the foreground two children sit at the front of a two-wheeled cart behind pulled across the sand into shallow water by a donkey

In the background other members of the party rest in the sand

He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt)

into which a tuft of feathers has been stuffed into its barrel

leaning on a staff

being poled forward by a man standing at the stern and paddled by a boy in the bow

View of a procession through the streets of Addis Ababa during the coronation ceremonies of the Empress Zauditu

larger dhow is also beached

View from the guest house at Abha over other buildings towards the pass to the Tihamah

In the distance a dhow (sailboat) is moored in the water