Shongopavi pueblo Tibet

Shongopavi pueblo TibetView of multi storeyed buildings at Shongopavi pueblo on Second Mesa, with a person standing on a roof in the foreground. According to an original note by James Stevenson (prepared circa 1885), Shongopavi 'is located on the point of a mesa which projects out into the plain. The photograph shows the greater portion of the village, also the interior court around which the houses are built.' Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any

The young boy on the right

This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 10-18

A man wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and a dark waistcoat over his thobe (long shirts) stands on a pathway through the remains of a demolished building surrounded by houses

at Karungu in south Nyanza

In the background Jebel Kawr rises high above the flat in the far distance

with round houses on a hillside in the distance

The boat has two sets of rowing oars

Some of the houses of the village are erected on the tops of others in consequence of the heaping sands

some in a state of ruin

being led by several boys with drawn daggers

View of two Bin Maaruf nomads (of the Saar tribe) with two tethered and loaded camels

In the far right background one and two storey houses sit along the far shore