Circumcision ceremony Africa 2

Circumcision ceremony Africa 2Group portrait of boys sitting on the ground outside a house. They have just been circumcised. 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.

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

including the square Shindagha watchtower in the Shindagha district

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party watering at a falaj (irrigation channel) at the southern end of Jabal Hafit

Female attendants at the 'Preparing the camp at Lubu' (klu sbug sgar sgrig) ceremony on a grassy meadow south of the Lingkor

Portrait of a Turkana elder wearing a feather headdress

A hyena can be seen approaching the flock

The people have gathered to celebrate the festival of Eid at the end of Ramadan

On the left a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party sits in sand criss-crossed with footprints next to a large pile of gear

View of houses at a settlement in the Tochi valley

sparsely dotted with small shrubs and grasses

built on a rock outcrop

View of a boat