View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin ... Size:medium

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin ... Size:mediumView of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party watering camels at a well during the party's journey from Jabal Buwaydah to Al Qabil. 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.

In the right background a high wall and watchtower sit in front of a grove of date palms

In the foreground a line of tracks crosses a sand ridge

gathered for a circumcision ceremony

In the background stone buildings line the square

with flies covering his face and clothing

In the distance palm trees grow along the bottom of the mountain slopes that surround Tarim

kneels in the saddle of his camel [the camel's nose and legs are cut off by the frame]

He is holding a falcon and a camel stick

A wedding procession making its way through the backstreets of Beijing

and a silver embossed dagger (khanjar) on a leather belt

a Samburu initiate ornamented with ochre paint and beaded jewellery around his head during 'The Ceremony of the Arrows' which marks the end of the circumcision rites

Portrait of two young men