Tiles on the mosque at Balkh Frame:gold

Tiles on the mosque at Balkh Frame:goldClose up view of patterned tiles on the Masjid Sabz ('Green Mosque') at Balkh. 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.

Portrait of two men standing in the doorway of a house at Suq al Sabt market below Jabal Mana'

This image was taken between December 20

A boy wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and wraparound skirt stands in the sand front of a bare walled

and dishes

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering camels at a well at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet)

A third man sits to the left of the standing boys

leading two camels behind him

a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

while the other three follow behind

as well as a medical barge pushed along in front

View of a busy street in Kuwait

On the left a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party loads one of two camels couched in the shade of a tall tree