Potala Palace Iraq

Potala Palace IraqView of the Potala Palace with yaks in the foreground. 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.

In the background number of people walk along a market thoroughfare

View of five tethered peregrine falcons sitting on their blocks

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across dunes near Umm az Zumul well

In the foreground a man wearing a khanjar (dagger) on a belt over his thobe (long shirt) walks past three masts lying in the sand on the Corniche road

Two water channels run from the near foreground into the central distance

In the foreground palm trees grow along the city walls

make some pretence to believe in the rites which are therein performed

His ghutra hangs loosely around his head and down over his chest

He has a trimmed dark beard and holds a rifle and a camel stick

holding a spoon above the pot

Street showing framework which is to support matting for shade

sitting on a camel with a peregrine falcon on his arm in the Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)