Huts made from palm material ... Africa 2

Huts made from palm material ... Africa 2Huts made from palm material at Baydayn village in Wadi Hali. 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 few men and a camel stand at the top of a rise in the far distance

Further beyond softly rolling dunes rise above the grove and stretch into a high ridge along the horizon

Further behind them two saluki hunting dogs rest in the sand beside clumps of vegetation

View of a man standing in front of a cluster of buildings in the Raydat as Say'ar region

A child sits inside the camel litter

On the right a saddled camel is couched in the sand

wearing white trousers

All of the men wear ceremonial bishts (robes) over their thobes (ankle-length shirts) and hold camel sticks [the lower portions of their bodies are outside the frame]

In the foreground fishing nets are spread out to dry on the sand

A few men stand on the shore and alongside nearby buildings

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of the Rashid Bedouin

Other paintings and carvings can be seen in the bottom of the image extending out of the frame