The Nechung Oracle, Lobsang Namgyal Afghanistan

The Nechung Oracle, Lobsang Namgyal AfghanistanPortrait of a man (named Lobsang Namgyal), the Nechung Oracle [the State Oracle of Tibet], sitting on chair, surrounded by plants and flowers, in the garden of Nechung monastery. 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.

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

Behind the compound a tall building

Group portrait of boys

Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Mahalhal

View of a thoroughbred male Bishara camel (named Faraj Allah) owned by Wilfred Thesiger

in a state of disrepair

a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party

Portrait of a Duru man

On the far left one man unloads a couched camel

On the left a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party loads one of two camels couched in the shade of a tall tree

with a man standing at the coffee hearth

View of people at the souk (market) at Boumalne