Gyantse telegraph office Frame:white

Gyantse telegraph office Frame:whiteThe wireless station of the British Mission in Gyantse. The table is covered with various pieces of equipment that were used to ensure that the Mission had telegraphic communications with India and beyond during their stay 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.

each mounted on a camel

Interior view of the fourteenth-century Masjid-i Jami mosque ('Friday Mosque') at Yazd

In the distance behind him clumps of vegetation grow scattered across the sand

used for building houses

or round thatched huts

at an ailoq (herdsmen's summer pasture camp) in the Chamar valley

Behind it another beached dhow sits in the water

and a boy standing between them

with bundles of reeds lying on the ground

Left of the tree another four members of the party arrive on their camels

stands holding a rifle in one hand

perhaps more advanced in civilized arts than the people of Taos