Fort at Najran with towers ... Pakistan

Fort at Najran with towers ... PakistanFort at Najran with towers on the corners and ornamental stonework on top of the walls. 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.

wearing elaborate beaded jewellery and a feather in his headband

Behind them a bare rocky slope rises in the distance

and the handle of a khanjar (dagger) is visible at his waist

On the left behind him a water barrel sits in the sand

and wearing black ostrich feather headdresses and holding bows and blunted arrows for use during the final part of the lengthy circumcision ritual

Views of a dhow moored off the beach at Tajura on the Djibouti coast

At the centre a man in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) pulls on the head rope of a saddled camel

for transporting the objects

at his fort in the town of Ras Al Khaimah

View of canoes moored on the water at Al Aggar

The hilltop at the centre right of the image was the location of the Emperor Menelik's palace residence before he moved his capital to Addis Ababa

Piles of equipment and blankets lie in the sand