Constructing a house from qasab John K. Hillers

Constructing a house from qasab John K. HillersView of a man leaning on the supporting arch, formed from bundles of giant reeds, or qasab [phragmites communis], of an unfinished house. 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 five of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions standing in a plain in the Al Ain/Buraimi oasis

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Giorgis at Lalibela

The transom stern of the baghla has five windows

He wears a striped blanket over his dark thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf)

which are resting on a rifle in a leather sleeve balanced across his lap

View of men and women at a dance after a circumcision ceremony

The two women standing are wearing burqa (face masks worn by married women)

east of Sabya

Omar Ibrahim (standing behind him

on which a coffee urn sits

Portrait of a few men in a crowd of traders and buyers at the open air market in the city of Abha

In the foreground a group of Arab boys stand beside a few donkeys