View of sandy excavations in ... Alfred Maudslay

View of sandy excavations in ... Alfred MaudslayView of sandy excavations in the city of Tarim. In the distance palm trees grow along the bottom of the mountain slopes that surround Tarim. In the far distance a large building sits on the rise. It is connected to a long wall that runs along the edge of the rise and down into the valley. 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.

Further beyond more booms and dhows sail along the horizon

a sheikh of the Bin Maaruf nomads (of Hatim section of the Saar tribe)

In is in a state of disrepair

In the distance beyond a vast sand flat stretches uninterrupted into the far distance

a cattle herder

A falconer in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) on a leather belt holds a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm

leaning on a blanket

Close-up view of patterned tiles on the Masjid Sabz ('Green Mosque') at Balkh

one sitting on the deck and the other sitting on the ship's rail

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in shade cast by a cluster of trees in the Sharqiyah Sands

He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and suspenders over his light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope)

its head looking up into the sky