Al bu Muhammad men dancing Arabia

Al bu Muhammad men dancing ArabiaView of a crowd of people of the Al bu Muhammad tribe, gathered in a circle with rifles raised, dancing the hausa (tribal war dance). 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.

Scattered patches of dry grass grow on the rocky plain

with a boy standing on rocks in the foreground

a sheikh of the Bin Maaruf nomads (of Hatim section of the Saar tribe)

a settlement comprising several households in the same enclosure

Frederick Spencer Chapman with a cine camera in the Lhasa area

View of houses at a settlement in the Minjigal valley

standing in front of a building

taken from the Gapa Pass

View of Kandari nomads with a loaded camel and a mule

on which a coffee urn sits

its head rope tied to a bush behind the man

Lamas were often trained in medicine and would be called on to administer medicine and to chant an appropriate religious text