Debtara playing a silver church drum George Dixon Aked

Debtara playing a silver church drum George Dixon AkedPortrait of a debtara (scribe), standing outside one of the rock hewn churches at Lalibela, playing a silver church drum which he wears over shoulder. 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.

one in a boat and the other sitting on a mud bank

In the foreground a peregrine falcon perches in profile on a carved wooden wakir (block)

Interior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Yahyah bin Haji Yasin of the Bani Hatcham tribe

Behind him a vast expanse of flat sand continues from the foreground to jagged mountains in the far distance

The boy is playing with one of a few model boats which float in the water around them

View of sailors on board a boom (large boat

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party leading three laden camels across the Muqta to Abu Dhabi island

Group portrait of a line of men waiting to dance in a circumcision ceremony in An Namas

The buildings on the left are topped only with adobe

Muhammad al Auf

sits beside a tree in an expanse of sand

holding a stick in his right hand