Abyssinian Patriots Special Orders

Abyssinian Patriots Special OrdersA group of patriots led by Mangasha, a chief in western Godjam. 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.

Profile portrait of a tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin

Behind him

a fence made of palm fronds lines a sand dune

In the background a qaid dune

On the left a large date palm grove is enclosed by a high mud wall

and holding a rifle under his right arm

Standing half length profile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha

On the far right one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin or Arab guides walks along a dune

They are constructed from plant material

Portrait of a Japanese man named Fukuzawa Yukichi

standing outside one of the rock-hewn churches at Lalibela

where the British Mission to Lhasa under Sir Basil Gould resided