View of locals walking in ... Thesiger Collection

View of locals walking in ... Thesiger CollectionView of locals walking in a vast square in front of a mosque in the city of Abha. The buildings on the near left are topped with adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion. A large white minaret stands at the edge of the buildings in the central distance. 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.

free-standing dune

In the right foreground a man sits beside a basket with a large pile of herbs spread out on a blanket in front of him

The women wear sheila (head cloths) over their hair and burqa (face masks worn by married women)

with buffaloes swimming in the water in the foreground

with people at the market in the foreground

The two women standing are wearing burqa (face masks worn by married women)

One of the men leads a camel on a head rope

View of buildings at Shibam in the Hadhramaut

View of a leopard driven off its kill and up a tree by a pride of lions

Behind the boats a number of single and two storey houses line the beach front

which is saddled with a dark sheepskin and a burlap sack (most of the camel is outside the frame)

On the left the peregrine stands with its wings spread wide and its talons clasped on the head or neck of the bustard