View of locals strolling through ... Afghanistan

View of locals strolling through ... AfghanistanView of locals strolling through a suq (market) in the city of Dubai. Many people walk along an aisle inside a covered market. Rays of sunlight pierce through a high overhead canopy made from palm fronds. A few stalls sit along the aisles. 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.

He is wearing a wraparound skirt and a ghutra (headscarf) and looks into the far distance

View of a man standing with three camels in Al Ain oasis

seated with bronzes laid out in foreground

The square building is one storey tall

In the left foreground a sailor sews the edge of a length of sail cloth that has been spread out over the sand

In the near distance sits a cluster of one and two storey buildings built from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

Portrait of a young Samburu man taken shortly after his circumcision

In the foreground a line of tracks leads up the side of a wind-rippled dune into the far distance

A saddled thoroughbred Omani camel belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is couched in the sand facing forward

Behind him a vast sand flat dotted with small tufts of vegetation stretches without interruption into the far horizon

Lamas were often trained in medicine and would be called on to administer medicine and to chant an appropriate religious text

sitting and standing