Samburu youth chanting the lebarta Thesiger Collection

Samburu youth chanting the lebarta Thesiger CollectionView of a youth, standing outside a hut with two older men, wrapped in the goatskin cloak traditionally worn at the time of circumcision, chanting the lebarta (circumcision song), with other people gathered in the distance. 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.

Portrait of a priest

Three men stand around the opening of a well

holding a rifle in one hand

View of buildings at a settlement near Telouet in the High Atlas range of mountains

gathered in a circle

In the foreground a man in a white thobe (ankle-length shirt) walks across an open sandy area

multi-storey buildings sits behind the Shibam city walls

Standing full length portrait of an Arab man

On the far left another sailor stands beside a second mast

In the foreground a middle-aged man and two boys walk along a covered thoroughfare in a market

turtle and toad

she is wearing bracelets on her arms and wrists