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View of a street in ... Frame:blackView of a street in the city of Abha. Buildings are to both sides. Laden donkeys walk down the street, accompanied by people. 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.

kneels on the left

In the foreground locals stand in the midst of a pack of donkeys carrying heavy loads of wood

In the distance beyond the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) rises high above the horizon

He is scratching his cheek with his thumb and wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a white headscarf

View of two boys (named Musallim bin Anauf and Said bin Kabina

holding a rifle across his shoulders

Portrait of a peregrine falcon and saluki

This was the first time that Thesiger had worn Arab dress and he looks slightly uneasy and self-conscious

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending a sand dune in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

heir apparent to the Emperor Menelik

on a rocky plain in the foreground

Portrait of sheikhs at Abu Dhabi