View of a busy street ... John K. Hillers

View of a busy street ... John K. HillersView of a busy street in Kuwait. In the foreground locals stroll through a shaded street. In the background the minaret of a mosque sits on the right side of the street. 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.

Behind him is a large tent made of woven fabric decorated with bright stripes

one wearing several ornaments

He is wearing a light-coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and suspenders

He wears a dark thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf)

In front of some windows are wooden screens

He leans on the balcony railing

A large dune cross-crossed with sand ridges rises from low slopes in the foreground into a high crest in the far distance

On the far right a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin sits holding a camel stick

Close-up view of patterned tiles on the Masjid Sabz ('Green Mosque') at Balkh

fishing nets dry on a rack in the sun

Similar buildings sit on either side of the building and in the background

sits in the sand on the shore