Bakhtiari boys wearing hats Frame:natural

Bakhtiari boys wearing hats Frame:naturalPortrait of two boys, standing, wearing distinctive round hats. 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.

The ground surrounding the men is carpeted with grass and a few sparse dots of vegetation

In the distance behind the falconer tufts of qassis (sedge) and other vegetation grow on a sand flat below a sky streaked with sparse clouds

A hooded peregrine falcon perches on a mangalah (cuff) on his near hand and he holds a camel stick in his other hand

View of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

View of a child playing in a street lined with tall buildings in the city of Jeddah

known as the Kumbum

a dhow (sailboat) sails past

In the background a few bushes grow in rocky soil

In the far background the mountain Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) rises above a vast expanse of rolling sands dotted with scattered vegetation

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of the Rashid Bedouin

View of a small dhow being launched by a group of men at Abu Dhabi

More houses are behind it