Portrait of an initiate Portraits of notable people

Portrait of an initiate Portraits of notable peoplePortrait of a young Samburu man taken shortly after his circumcision. He still wears the black skin cloak. 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.

Sir Basil Gould is in the middle distance with horses belonging to the Mission he was leading to Lhasa in the background

In the foreground a vast expanse of bare sand leads to a cluster of stone and adobe buildings

Group of dancers at wedding ceremony witnessed by British Association members

and in the far distance there is a line of trees

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet)

View of Mount Kenya with a group of men in the foreground looking up to the peak

with the camel (named Ghazala) which he rode during his second crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

A young man with chin-length curly hair and a thick beard stands looking into the far right foreground

On the far left another sailor stands beside a second mast

each holding a rifle

Muhammad bin Fadil sits astride his camel

with a mosque in the foreground and houses in the distance