View of buildings and the ... Type:stretched canvas

View of buildings and the ... Type:stretched canvasView of buildings and the landscape surrounding the city of Jeddah or At Taif. In the foreground car tracks criss cross a vast sandy plain. In the background large multi storey buildings sit in front of a long low mountain ridge. 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 buildings on the near left are topped with adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion

'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit in the sand along the shore

View of buildings at Santa Clara pueblo

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

a recently circumcised Samburu boy about to butcher an ox during 'The Ceremony of the Arrows' which marks the end of the circumcision rites

Portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

with Thesiger's hunting trophies

woollen hat

Nearby a woman stands wearing a tall woven straw hat

and holding his upper body to the mast with a length of rope around his shoulders

with Salim bin Kabina carrying fodder for his camel in the foreground