Houses at Bakawli Sue Johnson

Houses at Bakawli Sue JohnsonView of round houses at Bakawli. The pottery vessels built into the thatched roofs help to seal them from rainwater. 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.

In the background large multi-story buildings

View of a crowd

In the foreground a vast expanse of bare sand leads to a cluster of stone and adobe buildings

The four men sit in a circle on loose rocks under a limestone overhang

with a boy standing in the foreground

A boat is moored along the side of the boom

Behind the dunes an area of salt flat (sabkha) can be seen beneath a high

View of round houses at Bakawli

In one hand he holds a camel stick and in the other he holds a rifle and the head rope for his camel

with two boys standing on steps by its entrance

View of nomads pulling down their house at Awaidiya prior to moving

who accompanied Thesiger in Kurdistan