Blessing of the waters at Addis Ababa Frame:none

Blessing of the waters at Addis Ababa Frame:noneView of people gathered at the Feast of Epiphany for the blessing of the waters by priests in Addis Ababa. 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.

View of the inside of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe)

resting one hand on his thigh

A young boy

with cattle (and a dog) standing outside

kneeling on the ground

with two men standing in the foreground

kneeling in the stern of a canoe

Further back a crowd of people gathers in front of a large stone or coral building fronted with a large canopy covered with palm fronds

View of a bridge over a river in the Rich Gol valley

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's falconry party riding camels in Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)

View of a leopard driven off its kill and up a tree by a pride of lions

In the foreground the bow of a beached dhow sits on the shore