Dinka men with spears at a funeral dance Portraits of notable people

Dinka men with spears at a funeral dance Portraits of notable peopleA large number of Dinka men, standing and sitting, holding spears and ambatch parrying shields at a funeral dance near Malakal. Dances were frequent occurrences, and often accompanied events such as marriages and deaths. 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

preparing ochre

Standing full length profile portrait of a thoroughbred camel on an Abu Dhabi island

View of a group of people standing outside Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain

Wilfred Thesiger stands at the centre (third from left) holding a camel stick

left sticking out of the ground while their owners dance at a circumcision ceremony

Group portrait of Arab children in the city of Abha

with buffaloes standing outside

The two men stand side by side in front of a stone wall

she is wearing several bracelets on her right arm

wearing two black ostrich feathers in a band round his forehead to which he has fastened the stuffed skins of small birds he has shot with his bow and arrows

The ground surrounding the hill is carpeted with sparse grass and tufts of vegetation