Mount Kenya Afghanistan

Mount Kenya AfghanistanView of Mount Kenya with a group of men in the foreground looking up to the peak. 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 dhow (sailboat) is visible just behind the near boat

The falconer kneels in the sand

the rest of Wilfred Thesiger's party ride camels across sands

Portrait of an elderly man

Portrait of a moran (warrior)

On the right a second pair of men steer the ship's tiller

and a man standing in the foreground

In the far distance beyond Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) rises high above the flat plain in the far right distance

The boys are followed by a line of men holding muskets

His hands are clasped together in his lap on top of his dark bisht (robe) which he wears over a light coloured thobe (long shirt)

Each boy wears a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra)

A falconer wearing a thobe (long shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) toped with a dark 'agal (head rope) sits astride a tall camel