Portrait of a sixteen-year-old boy ... Miscellaneous

Portrait of a sixteen-year-old boy ... MiscellaneousPortrait of a sixteen year old boy crouching in front of a hut in the village of Ash Shuqaiq. He is wearing white trousers, typically women's dress but here worn as part of ceremonial attire shortly before his circumcision. 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.

third from right

A white building with a tower on the right

holding a stick behind his back

among papyrus stalks in a swamp

Overhead view of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering camels at Al Maghar well

In the distance groves of palm trees grow in the wadi behind the city

Each man wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a dark coloured ghutra (headscarf)

Portrait of two Bayt Kathir Bedouin boys in Dhofar

Their camels are chewing twigs from the bush

In the foreground a man rides a camel across sands dotted with a few clumps of vegetation

A long low dune rises behind the men

The procession is making its way around the Sho pillar and the back of the Dalai Lama's elephant can be seen on the left beside the building with a tiled roof