Sarifa at Qubba Frame:natural

Sarifa at Qubba Frame:naturalExerior view of a sarifa (house), with a man standing outside it. 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.

Muhammad bin Al Jabari

Palm trees grow all around

a sheikh of the Bin Maaruf nomads (of Hatim section of the Saar tribe)

The badan is beached in the sand with its bow pointing towards ocean on the left

both sitting on the ground

or qasab [phragmites communis]

Portrait of a Bin Maaruf nomad (of the Saar tribe)

In the foreground a man and a boy relax in shallow water on the right

on the day of his coronation as Emperor of Abyssinia

The ground is covered in fine sand

and his long hair hangs down around his shoulders beneath his headscarf

Spain (1837)