Shaving initiates' heads Type:stretched canvas

Shaving initiates' heads Type:stretched canvasView of Samburu women shaving their sons' heads on the eve of their circumcision. 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.

In the foreground a few goats stand near a cafe in a square

a tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin

Full length standing portrait of 'Amair bin 'Omar

playing a silver church drum which he wears over shoulder

likely built of coral and with a large barjeel on its roof

and sand dunes in the distance

In the background a man walks down the road

The buildings on the left are topped only with adobe

bell and dorje in front of him

In the near foreground Musallim bin Al Kamam

From the top of the mast many thick ropes hang and behind him a large striped sail hangs from a sail yard

In the left distance a large enclave of 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit in the sand