Sitra at Abu Laila Iraq

Sitra at Abu Laila IraqView of a sitra (buffalo shelter) extending from the smaller dimensions of a house, with a man standing in front of its entrance. 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 water channels at an oasis on Bahrain Island

View of five of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions standing in a plain in the Al Ain/Buraimi oasis

wearing traditional dress of kimono with mon (family emblem)

View of two dogs on their hind legs

Portrait of Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan

which are auspicious emblems used as roof decoration

holding a double-stringed bow used to shoot stones

View of a bridge over a river in the Rich Gol valley

He wears a thobe (long shirt) crossed with leather bandoliers attached to a cartridge belt and an embroidered ghutra (headscarf)

In the foreground sailors pull a rowboat alongside a moored dhow

At the centre two men and a young boy stand at an entrance to the market

standing in a doorway