View of tower houses with ... Size:small

View of tower houses with ... Size:smallView of tower houses with walled exterior courtyards in the town of Qalat Bishah. The buildings are made from zabur (forced earth). 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.

A pool of water in the mountains at Ayun spring

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at Hanun well

possibly a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

standing by its entrance

likely part of the city walls

Some of the buildings are topped with adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

sitting on steps at the foot of a doorway

made from palm fronts

Nearby a woman stands wearing a tall woven straw hat

a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one Wilfred Thesiger's companions

View of several women filling goatskins with water at Manwakh well

In the centre background is a group of square huts (locally known as arish) made of date palm fronds built on to a slight slope