Nuristani men Frame:none

Nuristani men Frame:noneGroup portrait of men, sitting, holding animal skins filled with butter, at an ailoq (herdsmen's summer pasture camp) in the Chamar valley. 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 distance beyond a dhow (sailboat) sails up Dubai Creek

Behind him

In the foreground a vast expanse of bare sand leads to a cluster of stone and adobe buildings

They see to be bowing in greeting or farewell

Portrait of Zayed bin Sultan and Yasir bin Hamud

while in the distance beyond high ridged dunes rise along the horizon

from where Wilfred Thesiger sailed after his Awash expedition

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding camels across the barren steppes of Jaddat al Harasis

In the distance beyond low rolling downs continue out to the horizon beneath a vast cloudless sky

with trees in the distance

Musallim bin al Kamam

in the area west of the Hamrat ad Duru region