Seated portrait of Sultan bin ... Thesiger Collection

Seated portrait of Sultan bin ... Thesiger CollectionSeated portrait of Sultan bin Ahmad, a sheikh of the Sh'asha lineage of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, in the region between Wadi Rahnah and Al Maghar well. Sultan bin Ahmad kneels on the ground facing forward. He is holding a rifle in one hand. 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.

Portrait of a group of male Samburu youths wearing black skin cloaks

and many have wooden grates and bars covering their windows

Portrait of a man (named Lobsang Namgyal)

the houses only reaching two stories in height

a tribesman of the Marakhin lineage of Duru Bedouin

He holds a bow and blunted arrows with which he will shoot small birds to wear hanging from his headband

Tall crops sprout from the field

In one hand the falconer holds a hood for the falcon

a young Samburu man wearing a black skin cloak and tufted hair style

The monument was created during the later part of the sixty-year reign of K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat and marked the close of an era in the Maya calendar

In the background small shoots of vegetation grow out of the sand

View of a Bin Maaruf nomad (of the Saar tribe) standing beside two black goat-hair tents