Close up portrait of two ... George Dixon Aked

Close up portrait of two ... George Dixon AkedClose up portrait of two boys at a well near the town of Al Qunfidhah. 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 foreground two men and two boys stand beside a rowboat with their transport donkeys

stands with its wings spread wide

View of several Ghilzai nomads with a laden camel

In one hand he holds the head rope of the second camel

sitting astride a saddled yak

while one man walks alongside

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

A Batina camel stands on a sand dune in sparse dry grass

Small salt bushes grow scattered across the open sand between the groves

In the foreground a well topped with a wooden frame sits in the midst of a bare and parched field

beyond which rolling dunes continue into the far horizon below a cloudless sky

In the foreground three men stand amongst four camels couched in the sand