Portrait of a Roma girl ... Iraq

Portrait of a Roma girl ... IraqPortrait of a Roma girl standing in front of a stone wall in the village of Al Makhwah. The girl comes from the Al Hud group in Yemen and works as a dancing and singing street performer. She is wearing large earrings, a nose ornament and a thick armlet. Another girl and a baby are visible in the background. 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

Rows of square one and two storey buildings sit overlooking a vast empty flat

There are trees and grazing anaimals in the foreground

in front of the camel

The groves sit in circular depressions between the high dunes

View of Lake Abhebad (seen from the north-west)

The group is heading towards a salt flat (sabkha) below that is dotted with sparse vegetation

In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin travelling companions (likely Musallim bin Al Kamam

On the right a man stands by the well

or stone used in grinding corn

rises high above nearby houses in the Shindagha district

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands

Al Dhafra and Baynunah sands in November and December 1948