Interior of King's Compound Afghanistan

Interior of King's Compound AfghanistanInterior of King's compound burnt during fire in the seige of Benin City, with three British officers of the Punitive Expedition [from left, Captain C. H. P. Carter 42nd, F. P. Hill, unknown], seated with bronzes laid out in foreground. 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.

Carter 42nd

The donkey's saddle is covered with a thick sheepskin blanket

View of an abra (ferry boat) launch at Dubai Creek

A boat is moored along the side of the boom

riding his camel along the top of the dune

In the foreground a large tree grows beside a well in the midst of a large flat field

wrapped in the goatskin cloak traditionally worn at the time of circumcision

with sticks as imitation rifles slung over their shoulders

drinking from a cup

Wilfred Thesiger sits leaning against a mud wall with one arm resting on his knee and a camel stick resting on his shoulder

On the far left a pot and a goatskin lie on the ground

smoking a water-pipe