Qarra man Arabia

Qarra man ArabiaPortrait of a man, kneeling. 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.

Next to the falcon on the right a thoroughbred Omani camel wearing a head rope is couched in the sand (only its head and neck are inside the frame)

The four men sit in a circle on loose rocks under a limestone overhang

A number of Arab and Bedouin men and camels stand around a well

Except for the small bush

among papyrus stalks in a swamp

Behind the grove softly rolling dunes stretch along the horizon

Close-up view of the head of a thoroughbred (female) Wahiba camel

The four abbots of Sera Monastery

In the right distance a fourth member of the party walks with his camel around a large hollow between dunes

with Warad

kneels in the sand at the far left

with his wife and other British Legation staff arriving at the palace residence (Gibbi) of the Emperor Menelik