View of a farmer's field ... Afghanistan

View of a farmer's field ... AfghanistanView of a farmer's field in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban. In the background a four sided stone watchtower sits high above the field on a hilltop. 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 foreground Salim bin Kabina

gathered for a circumcision ceremony

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending a dune in the Al Batin sands

Portrait of a man (named Francisco Areso) from Cochiti pueblo

In the distance more ghada trees grow on low rolling sands

In the background small shoots of vegetation grow out of the sand

View of a boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin pouring water into a hawd

A wadi bed near Andhur

Behind him a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation runs into the far distance

Two small dhows sit alongside a moored boom

Portrait of Sultan bin Ahmad

the ends of which are supported on ornate gilt trumpet stands decorated with eight auspicious Buddhist emblems and floral motifs