View of the coastal city ... Special Orders

View of the coastal city ... Special OrdersView of the coastal city of Jizan. In the foreground square one storey buildings line both sides of an empty street. In the background a mosque and minaret sits along the left side of the street. In the far background rocky hills rise behind the city. 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.

in which a group of people sits

is riding his camel down a steep dune slope

In the background a large ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree grows in the sand

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions lead camels in ones and twos up the side of a tall sloping dune

wearing a thick black 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf) sits holding a young boy in his lap

wrapped in the goatskin cloaks traditionally worn at the time of circumcision

which is lined with one storey buildings

at the left

Standing full length portrait of a man at Lawdar in Abyan Governorate

Trees grow behind and in front of the wall

In the distance a steep domed hill is covered with square stone houses