View of a city square ... Iran

View of a city square ... IranView of a city square in the city of Jeddah. A few people walk through the square, which is framed by two storey buildings and a line of single storey wooden shacks. In the background are a number of large multi story buildings with small wooden balconies. 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.

The young boy on the right

Rays of scattered sunlight filter through the palm frond canopy covering the market

In the distance beyond trees and low vegetation grow on a vast flat plain

On the left an Arab falconer carries a hooded falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm

Further behind them two saluki hunting dogs rest in the sand beside clumps of vegetation

In the right foreground two rowboats have been pulled up onto a beach beside a pile of wood

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet)

sits on the far right

cultivated by local Arab villagers

Tendong Shappe in black fox fur hat and gold coloured chuba

Watercolour painting by John Bolton Woodthorpe of H

members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party