View of two Bedouin tribesmen ... Afghanistan

View of two Bedouin tribesmen ... AfghanistanView of two Bedouin tribesmen, members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing beside a frankincense tree on in a wadi on the northern side of the Jabal Qara mountain range. Behind them barren sand stretches across the wadi to a rocky slope in the background. 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.

and strings of pearls

wearing elaborate beaded jewellery and a feather in his headband

This ceremony took place on the 22nd day of the First Tibetan month

beached on Shindagha beach in Dubai

View of the Greater Zab river flowing down a valley

Two water channels run from the near foreground into the central distance

Two houses or sheds in the foreground

The town can be seen in the background

A line of tracks leads from the near foreground across a vast dune slope to into the distance

later crowned Emperor Haile Selassie

and closer still to the camera the collector James Stevenson can be seen talking with a local inhabitant

with a group of women in the foreground watching them