View of a herd of ... Iraq

View of a herd of ... IraqView of a herd of cattle gathered at Shehara cattle camp on the Jarbayb Plain. The cattle stand in the middle of the camp, which is made up of small huts covered in grass and mud. In the distance the high mountains of Jabal Qara are visible. 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 one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions stands to the right of a tall round stone watchtower

carrying a blackware pottery vessel on her head

wearing traditional dress of kimono with mon (family emblem)

Group portrait of Arab men and boys standing beside a wall at the open air market in the town of Qalat Bishah

In the background a saluki hunting dog walks across a vast flat dotted with low bushes

all masked

The wall on the right encloses a date palm grove

Portrait of a boy of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin at Ma' Shadid well in Dhofar

holding spears and ambatch parrying shields at a funeral dance near Malakal

View of fields

On the left a line of people sit in the shade cast by a building

On the left one man unloads gear from a couched camel