Portrait of an initiate Size:medium

Portrait of an initiate Size:mediumPortrait of a young Samburu man taken shortly after his circumcision. He still wears the black skin cloak. 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.

holding a saker falcon on his left arm

He is wearing a white headscarf topped with a thick dark 'agal (head rope)

and snow-covered mountains in the Batura range in the distance

with a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking in the foreground

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

with men walking with laden horses in the foreground

View of a group of men standing on rocks near the top of the snow-covered Munjan Pass

In the left distance sits Qasr Ibrahim fort

View of locals walking in a vast square in front of a mosque in the city of Abha

In the background the mountain Jabal Thahran

Camels wait around the well for water

which he rode on the journey to Mughshin