Samburu circumcision fire Iraq

Samburu circumcision fire IraqView of a Samburu man lighting a fire on which the meat of oxen will be roasted during 'The Ceremony of the Arrows' which marks the end of the circumcision rites. 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.

Wilfred Thesiger spent a week on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] hunting Arabian Tahr [Hemitragus jayakari] with Arab and Bedouin guides in April 1948

with a man sitting at the coffee hearth and a lamp prominent overhead

Half length standing portrait of an Arab man of the Al Bu Shams in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

A lama doctor

Interior view of the unfinished mudhif (guest house) belonging to Raudha

several of whom are wearing goatskins

its head (covered with a hood) facing towards the ground

View of the Taj Mahal

View of tall mud houses

holding on to a rope [the camel is entirely outside the frame]

which faces forward

View of a house