View of old Sabya from ... Size:medium

View of old Sabya from ... Size:mediumView of old Sabya from the Emir's palace. In the foreground an open air building sits in an empty courtyard, which is surrounded by a high stone wall. Behind the courtyard are a few square one and two storey buildings. Further beyond domed circular huts with straw roofs fill the distance. 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.

According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885)

Portrait of a tribesman of the Utaybah Bedouin sitting on the sand at one of the Rumah wells

These bluffs are composed of a yellowish

Portrait of a young boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin at a well in the region between the city of Shibam and the Raydat as Say'ar

and its tail feathers standing straight up

View (looking eastward) of buildings surrounding the main plaza of Sandia pueblo

from hermitage above Gyantse plain

a recently circumcised Samburu boy about to butcher an ox during 'The Ceremony of the Arrows' which marks the end of the circumcision rites

Portrait of a Samburu moran (warrior)

Standing full length portrait of an Arab falconer

In the distance behind him wind towers top the roofs of nearby houses

and arm bracelet