Nuristani boys India

Nuristani boys IndiaGroup portrait of five boys, sitting and standing. 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.

On the left 'arish huts and fences line the shore where two dhows (sailboats) are beached

Above the dhows the sky is cloudless

In the foreground a peregrine falcon perches facing forward on a carved wooden wakir (block)

In front of him a tea urn sits beside a bag in the sand while nearby a coffee urn heats on the fire

supplies and saddles lie in the sand around the camp

and holding a rifle across his shoulders

likely built of coral and with a large barjeel on its roof

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

Wilfred Thesiger's camel sits couched in the sand facing towards the left

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

a long shirt (thobe)

A pair of square two storey buildings sit inside the fort