Udhr boy with a rifle Arabia

Udhr boy with a rifle ArabiaPortrait of a boy, a young soldier of the Royalist forces, sitting in a doorway, wearing a bandolier and a dagger in a scabbard across his waist. 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.

facing towards the far right

The banner in the foreground is especially elaborate

Mabkhaut bin Arbain

He is pouring water out of a beaten metal bowl into a metal pot in front of him

a cattle herder

Nearby an abra (ferry boat) sits on the shore

Portrait of a boy at in the town of Dhahran in Qahtan tribal territory

while further along a small rowboat is tied alongside the stern

Wilfred Thesiger's camel sits couched in the sand facing towards the left

In the right background one and two storey houses line the shore

Lamas were often trained in medicine and would be called on to administer medicine and to chant an appropriate religious text

View of an empty street lined with shops in the city of Jeddah