Portrait of a boy of ... Africa

Portrait of a boy of ... AfricaPortrait of a boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin sitting on a rock in the Raydat as Say'ar region. 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.

west of Shibam

All around them piles of equipment lie in the sand

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through sand dunes in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq

A lone bush grows near the top of its right slope

Further beyond three dhows are moored alongside each other in the distance

In the distance beyond the dune continues to rise higher into a crescent shaped crest on the right

In the foreground members of Wilfred Thesiger's party walk with their grazing camels through vegetation growing in the sands

carrying a falcon in the sands surrounding Al Ain

The boy on the left wears a long sword over his wraparound skirt and a palm head-dress

The rock escarpment runs from the far right into the centre distance

On the left the ravine wall rises steeply

View of a Samburu circumcision camp