Portrait of a teenaged Arab ... Frame:gold

Portrait of a teenaged Arab ... Frame:goldPortrait of a teenaged Arab water seller with a transport donkey at the harbour in Kuwait City. The boy sells fresh water, which was at this time was imported to Kuwait by boat. In the background beached dhows (sailboats) rest on the sand. 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.

described only a few years later as virtually uninhabited ('almost extinct')

leaders of a Manahil raiding party

The ground around them is dry and strewn with rocks and small pebbles

The large building decorated with thick horizontal stripes of plaster is the Sultan's Palace

Nechung monastery at the dance held early in the Tibetan New Year when the oracle foretells coming events as a preliminary to the start of the Great Prayer the following day

the fifteen year old son of Salim bin Turkia

In the background a flock of sheep gathers behind him

Portrait of a Suaid man

The man in the foreground wears a plaid cloth hanging across his shoulders over his thobe (shirt) and a checked headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

On the far bank the square stone Shindagha watchtower rises high above nearby buildings

their families

with people processing from its entrance in the foreground