Portrait of an initiate Images of Sheikh Zayed

Portrait of an initiate Images of Sheikh ZayedClose up portrait of a young Samburu man, taken shortly after his circumcision. He has been adorned with woman's earrings and an ostrich feather headdress. 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.

He is holding a length of rope in both hands

The man wears a ghutra (headscarf) and a plain thobe (shirt) topped with a cartridge belt

one and two storey houses made of coral are built close together in the Shindagha district

In the foreground a boy with a donkey walks across a sandy plain dotted two stands of trees

lying on the ground

In the left foreground Salim bin Kabina

with a man standing in the foreground

View of the northern face of the Chamar Pass

View of a small dhow being launched by a group of men at Abu Dhabi

Wilfred Thesiger sits in the centre of the back row

A kotia sits in choppy water

surrounding a round watchtower on all sides