Kandari nomads migrating Size:medium

Kandari nomads migrating Size:mediumView of a caravan of Kandari nomads with loaded camels and mules, migrating from Lake Shiva above the Oxus valley back to winter pastures. 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.

Palm trees grow all around

In the background low sand dunes and trees sit in the far distance

and holds a cane in one hand

Salim bin Kabina (centre left)

The water surrounding them is clear and calm

On the extreme right distance Jabal al Akhdar is just visible above the plain

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through rolling sands in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq

A few people walk through the square

and further behind a tree grows in the distance

with Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing a gravel plain (sabkha)

standing and kneeling around the animal

riding camels in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq