Samburu families with laden donkeys John K. Hillers

Samburu families with laden donkeys John K. HillersView of families gathered with laden donkeys, on their way to a circumcision lodge. 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.

with a shrine visible in the foreground

wearing a large dagger in the scabbard across his waist

walking up a hill

He holds a bow and blunted arrows with which he will shoot small birds to wear hanging from his headband

dressed in white

a tribesman of the Mahra Bedouin

who are to be circumcised

It is heavily loaded and it wears the traditional form of guiding harness

kneeling on the ground outside Qasr Al Hosn fort

in all respects

He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope)

being bent to form the supporting arches