At Sabya. A camel-driven press ... Miscellaneous

At Sabya. A camel-driven press ... MiscellaneousAt Sabya. A camel driven press for sesame seeds. It consists of a large mortar in which a pestle is rotated. 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.

possibly a religious text

Full length portrait of a Bedouin boy

Behind him the men and woman are using rope and a wooden pulley to haul water out of the stone lined well

View of buildings in a village near the city of Abha

perched on drum barrels

some with several storeys

The older man on the right wears a bisht (robe) over his thobe and also has a khanjar in a scabbard on a belt around his waist

Portrait of two boys in the village of Baydayn in Wadi Hali

while on the right a large sand dune rises

Three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk with their camels along a dune ridge

and is followed by a line of baggage camels and another rider

holding the camel's head rope in his hands