Portrait of a herds boy ... India

Portrait of a herds boy ... IndiaPortrait of a herds boy of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin in Dhofar. 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 line of men wave their muskets at crowd of spectators perched on a stone wall behind them

with a quiet

wearing a hat decorated with many rows of shells

Behind him on the far left a man (mostly outside the frame) sits next to a large bush

In the foreground small tents and donkeys

beside a hooded peregrine falcon perched on a mangalah (cuff)

two storey houses and 'arish huts made from palm fronds sit along the far bank

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

The dancers are facing forward in a long single file line

View of an ox with long curved (trained) horns drinking from a wooden water-trough at Ilaut wells

with a man standing with a dog and three mules in the foreground

standing with two of his retainers