View of an open-air market ... Iran

View of an open-air market ... IranView of an open air market at Seiyun. Large numbers of people stand in the square, some carrying baskets of merchandise. 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.

typically women's dress but here worn shortly before circumcision

Seated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain

People in front of the fort at Buraymi

On the right a rocky hill rises behind them

A cloth is spread out across his lap

All around him long grass grows

Portrait of an Arab woman helping with the grain harvest in the city of Tarim

branches from a dry bush sit in a depression in the sand

Below the fort the town of Ras Al Khaimah sits on a sandy plain

View of the town of 'Aynat

Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party gathering water from a well in the Wadi Halfayn

Portrait of a tribesman of the Sahul Bedouin standing with his camels at one of the Rumah wells