View of a gate in ... Africa

View of a gate in ... AfricaView of a gate in the Jeddah city walls. Two buildings with several storeys sit behind the walls. The gate has two round towers on either side of the entranceway. 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 far left background two boats bob in the water

with mountains in the distance

wearing a thick black 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf) sits holding a young boy in his lap

The Potala Palace from the south west

In the centre foreground a saker (hurr) falcon perches on a wakir (block)

while the building on the right is topped with a layer of adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion

rides at the front of a group of five camel riders

its bow pointing to the right

In the far distance shrubs grow on a sand dune

At Laduma's kraal

In the centre background is a group of square huts (locally known as arish) made of date palm fronds built on to a slight slope

with a man (named Nasser Hussain)