Pedro Jose Quivera using a pump-drill Frame:blackPortrait of a man (named Ah fit che, better known as Pedro Jose Quivera), the governor of San Felipe pueblo, sitting on a blanket, demonstrating the use of a pump drill, a tool used to drill holes in flat turquoise and shell beads. According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885), 'the point of the drill is a small flake of flint fastened in a slit in the lower end of the shaft which is tightly wrapped either with
In the distance beyond a dhow (sailboat) sails up the creek
when all the Mission staff were in full dress in readiness for the second official visit they were to make to the Potala
The peregrine's body faces directly forward
View through the Siq gorge of the rock-cut façade of the Al-Khazna (Treasury) at Petra
The red painted walls designate the holiest parts of the building
carrying bows and blunted arrows
One man walks in front of the tree carrying a large load of firewood
Group portrait of three girls at Xiangkhoang in Laos
In the near distance a large group of camels are couched in the sand
Their habits and customs are similar to those of San Felipe
one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party and a retainer of Sulaiman bin Hamyiar
In the far background people work on one of the beached dhows
