Abyssinian Patriot soldier with a rifle Africa 2

Abyssinian Patriot soldier with a rifle Africa 2Portrait of a man, an Abyssinian 'Patriot' soldier, standing, holding a rifle over his right shoulder. 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.

View of a boom (large boat

standing on the crest of a dune in the Awarik sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and members of his travelling party: Mabkhaut bin Arbain

He is pictured wearing traditional dress of kimono with mon (family emblem) and is carrying a katana (long sword)

leaning on a rifle

wrapped in the goatskin cloak traditionally worn at the time of circumcision

All the men wear thobes (long shirts) and headscarves (ghutra)

holding rifles

In background small shrubs and bushes grow on a flat expanse of sand sitting below a sky dotted with a few fluffy clouds

holding a rope

past a sand bank and the many moored dhows that line the shore

View of a house with wind-towers built on the creek in Dubai