View of water sellers unloading ... Frame:black

View of water sellers unloading ... Frame:blackView of water sellers unloading imported water from a dhow (sailboat) at the harbour in Kuwait City. In the foreground boys and men stand in the tide beside a dhow, loading filled water skins onto waiting donkeys. Behind them more dhows are moored in shallow water close to shore. 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.

or qasab [phragmites communis]

stands in the far left foreground

and (the mountain) Rakaposhi rising snow-capped in the distance

Servants can be seen in the background

In the left foreground a boy sits on a pile of coral lying in shallow water

In the far distance a large sand dune with deep ridges rises into the horizon

Some of the houses of the village are erected on the tops of others in consequence of the heaping sands

wearing two black ostrich feathers in a band round his forehead to which he has fastened the stuffed skins of small birds he has shot with his bow and arrows

It wears a thin neck rope

migrating from summer pastures in the mountains to the plains around Mosul

ride camels up a softly sloping dune towards a far ridge

View of rooftops at Lamu