Afar warriors Frame:black

Afar warriors Frame:blackGroup portrait of Afar (Asaimara Danakil) warriors. 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.

with the carved wooden board and its counters at the centre of the group

with a quiet

wearing a thick agal (head rope) over his ghutra

In the foreground three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party stand with their camels by a large tree on a flat plain

Beside the launch a house with two wind towers (barjeel) sits along the creek

View of men carrying bags on their backs up a steep path on a cliff

sheer-faced dune with a wind-rippled crest

In the far distance a sheer faced rock mountain (likely Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]) sits below the horizon

In the far distance beyond rocky mountains rise along the horizon

View of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe)

View of Nuer men

View of a two dhows (sailboats) beached on the Corniche in the town of Abu Dhabi