View of landscape near the ... Iran

View of landscape near the ... IranView of landscape near the city of Abha. In the foreground two palms grow in a sandy clearing. A round stone watchtower stands on the right amidst ruins and in the far distance low mountain ranges run along the horizon. 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.

The settlement of Dhafir sits atop a high dune in a wide expanse of dunes

with a blanket hanging on a wall behind them

The hut is round with a domed roof

Portrait of two boys of the Yam tribe at the settlement of Badr

which is made from palms and has a wooden door frame

A white Arabian oryx [oryx leucoryx] with long straight horns stands in a sandy central courtyard in sand littered with animal droppings

with members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking in the foreground

Behind the men the ocean stretches out into the distance

In the background a few trees grow on the water's edge

in a boma (village)

and behind them a steep rock slope rises in the background

In the centre of the group a man and a boy are gutting fish