Encampment in the Mughab valley Sue Johnson

Encampment in the Mughab valley Sue JohnsonView of a Kandari encampment of tents in the Mughab valley, with mountains in the distance. 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 man wears a ghutra (headscarf) and a plain thobe (shirt) topped with a cartridge belt

four adults and boy

wearing a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a checked ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope)

A crowd of fishermen gather in the sand around a beached boat

Behind them a vast rocky sand flat stretches into the far horizon

a young tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin

with two boys by its entrance

fishing nets dry on a rack in the sun

the Rakashar family

In the near distance sits a cluster of one and two storey buildings built from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

View of a woman building a house

Close-up view of the prow of a balam (flat-bottomed boat)