Boy Tibet

Boy TibetPortrait of a boy, the brother of the local arbob (herditary district chief or headman). 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 river flowing down the Alingar valley

with a quiet

He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) draped over his head and shoulders

He holds a camel stick in one hand and a falcon in the other

View of four men

holding a bow and arrows

A young man wearing a light-coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) on a belt and a plain ghutra (headscarf) kneels on the ground in front of an entrance to Al Muwaiji Fort

A small canoe is towed behind the dhow

decorated with red ochre paint on his face and around his shoulders

Behind him is a pile of blankets

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing in country north of Al Ain/Buraimi oasis in the area between Ramlat Unayq and Jabal Sumeini

taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey from Al Hofuf to Ar Rumhiya wells