The market at Abha in ... Sue Johnson

The market at Abha in ... Sue JohnsonThe market at Abha in front of Al Shada Palace, the palace of the Emir. Traders stand with their pack donkeys at an open air market in front of the palace. 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.

Her head dress would have been covered in red cloth with corals and pearls used as decoration

The rifle is covered in a leather sleeve

He is wearing a silver-sheathed dagger on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt)

On the right a second pair of men steer the ship's tiller

The market at Abha with Al Shada Palace in the background

In the distance on the far right

cultivated by local Arab villagers

In the foreground a wide road leads into the city of Abha

In the far distance beyond small shrubs and bushes grow on a flat expanse of rocky sand

holding rifles

Full-length group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger standing with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

On the right