Ras Tafari Frame:black

Ras Tafari Frame:blackPortrait of Ras Tafari, the Regent of Abyssinia (and later the Emperor Haile Selassie), standing, dressed in ceremonial robes and wearing a crown. 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.

View from behind of a young man standing in the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe)

paddling it forward

used for building houses

Each man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt)

In the background two storey buildings fronted with wooden canopies line the square

The young boy kneeling in front of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan may be Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

'Amair bin 'Omar

View of Wilfred Thesiger's expedition party setting out from the Awash Station at the start of his 1933-4 Awash expedition

The bustard lies in the sand with its wings crushed beneath its body

which he rode on the journey to Mughshin

On the right another man stands holding a rifle

Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Thesiger