Samburu youths Africa

Samburu youths AfricaGroup portrait of three youths, sitting, wrapped in the goatskin cloaks traditionally worn at the time of circumcision, and wearing black ostrich feather headdresses and holding bows and blunted arrows for use during the final part of the lengthy circumcision ritual. 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 left distance a large enclave of 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit below tall buildings

View of the snow-covered Chilinji Pass

Square arches form a long canopy in front of a line of rooms flanking a wide empty courtyard

leaning on some ropes

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party watering at a falaj (irrigation channel) at the southern end of Jabal Hafit

In the centre two men stand side by side

three storey building overlooks the creek on the right

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The crest of the dune stretches from the foreground into the far distance

a type of dhow) in the harbour at Aden

View of tall buildings at Furt in the Hadhramaut

while behind him two men work next to a standing camel