View of the city of ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of the city of ... Type:unstretched canvasView of the city of Seiyun with palm trees in the foreground. In the central distance Sultan Al Kathiri Palace is visible on a rise overlooking the rest of the city. 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.

Behind them a thick cluster of salt bushes grows along the edge of a large salt flat (sabkha) between two ridges of high dunes

They are wearing the traditional women's dress of black tanned goat skins and are carrying sticks from which they will make bows and arrows

He also wears a ghutra (headscarf) tied closely around his head

two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides

A puffed up peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand with its chest facing forward and its head turned to the right

More men rest on the deck of the boat

working with a length of rope

In the far distance low rolling dunes continue into the far horizon

Portrait of a Samburu moran (warrior)

Four falconers holding peregrine falcons sit on their camels in a vast expanse of flat sand dotted with tufts of qassis (sedge) and other vegetation

A pair of square two storey buildings sit inside the fort

in the far distance