Amara bin Thuqub Special Orders

Amara bin Thuqub Special OrdersPortrait of a young man (named Amara bin Thuqub), one of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe boys. 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.

a MacQueen's Bustard

standing in the doorway of a yurt

In the background a saluki hunting dog walks across a vast flat dotted with low bushes

Side view of a kotia

with giant groundsel in the foreground

View of sailors on board a boom (large boat

View of a large building on a hill in the Colom Bela valley

View of houses and boats at a settlement in the Marshes

while the building on the right is topped with a layer of adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion

standing in the doorway of a mudhif (guest house)

There is a large number of onlookers

Four Bedouin men stand around a well opening made of concrete or rammed earth