Portrait of a young Arab ... Afghanistan

Portrait of a young Arab ... AfghanistanPortrait of a young Arab boy loading a donkey with filled water skins in front of a wall in Kuwait City. The boy sells fresh water, which was at this time was imported to Kuwait by boat. 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.

In the foreground people with camels and goats on a open space

In the foreground a desiccated bush lies in pieces on the side of the dune

Wilfred Thesiger and another young man sitting on a rock with a lake in the background

In the near distance a large number of men and camels gather around a walled trough at a falaj

A bare salt flat (sabkha) lies beyond in the background at the right

Full length portrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

In the central foreground a large ghada (Haloxylon persicum Bunge) tree grows on the side of a sand dune amongst small clumps of vegetation

A man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands on a large rock in the right foreground

At the time this photograph was taken

The man has a thick beard and buckteeth crouches in the sand in front of a bush

two of whom carry rifles

The Thirteenth Dalai Lama (1876-1933)