View of people herding cows ... Iraq

View of people herding cows ... IraqView of people herding cows on a grass covered plain in Wadi Arbat. 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 a large ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree grows in the sand

Both men wear ghutra (headscarves) topped with agal (head ropes) and khanjar daggers in their ammunition belts

an awning is covered with white cloth

one of whom is standing

at the foot of the steps in front of the new British Legation building in Addis Ababa

which is framed by a number of large multi-story buildings with small wooden balconies

Two men wearing waistcoats over their thobes (long shirts) and holding camel sticks stand in the sand beside a wall

rocky wadi

sits on the sand with its bow pointing towards ocean

described by Wilfred Thesiger as 'one of [his] favourite compositions'

the ends are then sewed together

In the foreground an open air building sits in an empty courtyard