Samburu initiate Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Samburu initiate Images of Wilfred ThesigerPortrait of a recently circumcised Samburu boy wearing a black goat skin and ostrich feathers and small bird skins attached to his headband. He is posing with a bow and blunted arrows with which he has shot the birds that adorn his headband. 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

where Wilfred Thesiger grew up

wrestles with its quarry

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in Liwa oasis

Group portrait of five peregrine falcons belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

View of fields

some in a state of ruin

the ruler of Dubai

A kotia sits in choppy water

Thangka behind him

and Salim bin Ghabaisha is holding a rifle

All three men are tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin