Embroidered Sertreng banners on the Potala Palace Frame:white

Embroidered Sertreng banners on the Potala Palace Frame:whiteHuge embroidered banners hanging from the walls of the Potala during Sertreng Ceremony. 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.

Wilfred Thesiger wears a cartridge belt with leather suspenders over his thobe (long shirt) and a patterned ghutra (headscarf)

Chakpori as seen from the Norbu Lingka summer palace of the Dalai Lama at the end of a wide tree-lined avenue

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

Wilfred Thesiger is in the fourth row

Musallim bin Al Kamam

View of the shoreline at Dubai Creek

The many smaller images carved in the rock face surrounding these central figures are also depicted in a variety of different mudra

located not far from Lalibela's famous carved churches

View of houses at Waigal

a recently circumcised Samburu boy about to butcher an ox during 'The Ceremony of the Arrows' which marks the end of the circumcision rites

dotted with sparse points of vegetation

landscaped gardens visible