Houses at Aït Hamed Africa

Houses at Aït Hamed AfricaView of houses built on to the steep rock face of a mountain at At Hamed in the High Atlas range of mountains, taken from the roof of Khalifa Haji Umr's kasbah (fortress). 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.

Portrait of Salim Bin Ghabaisha

wrapped in a blanket

The falcon wears a leather burqa (hood) decorated with a strip of leather

each mounted on a camel

wearing a bandolier and a dagger in a scabbard across his waist

Identified over the years variously as a tiger

Merchants sit at stalls housed in 'arish huts along the left side of the market aisle

Wilfred Thesiger stands at the centre (third from left) holding a camel stick

while further along a small rowboat is tied alongside the stern

Close-up view of the stern of a balam (flat-bottomed boat)

on the gravel plains below Jabal Sumeini posing with a feral donkey shot by Wilfred Thesiger

The texts are bound with a leather strap